Thanks for looking at this Lars.
The steps you tried also work correctly for me, so clearly the problem is a bit more specific than I initially thought!
I stepped through `vc-responsible-backend’ in the debugger when executing `vc-dir’ on one of the directories where I have this problem (my home directory in the following example).
This bit of code:
(vc-call-backend backend 'responsible-p file)
returns "~/“ for the Git backend, but "/Users/mike/“ for the CVS backend.
Further down, this next bit of code looks for the longest directory string in an attempt to find the deepest subdirectory:
;; Several roots; we seem to have one vc inside another's
;; directory. Choose the most specific.
(caar (sort dirs (lambda (d1 d2)
(< (length (cdr d2)) (length (cdr d1))))))))
Which explains why it picks the CVS backend, because "/Users/mike/“ is longer than "~/“ 😊
So in other words, the missing step from my instructions is the directory has to be under the user’s home directory.
I would have thought the fix would be either to make `responsible-p’ return the same string or expand the “~” before executing the length comparison above.
Thanks,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <
larsi@gnus.org> writes:
I'm unable to reproduce this problem with Emacs 28.2 (or the current
trunk).
Sorry; I was testing in the wrong checkout -- I'm now rebuilding the
real emacs-28.2 release and will re-test.
I've now redone the tests, but I'm still not able to reproduce the
problem.