From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:16:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (vc-find-root): Don't loop forever on non-existent root.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.1.91~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b99fa736f1b3e2b66cad76ba4ce8408969d8814;p=emacs.git

(vc-find-root): Don't loop forever on non-existent root.
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diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index a92d8d16c73..ccf112e0da6 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-02-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+	* vc-hooks.el (vc-find-root): Don't loop forever on non-existent root.
+
 2008-02-14  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@pastel.home>
 
 	* textmodes/sgml-mode.el (sgml-mode): Fix comment syntax.
diff --git a/lisp/vc-hooks.el b/lisp/vc-hooks.el
index 64a7d8f527a..38ad7b5ea83 100644
--- a/lisp/vc-hooks.el
+++ b/lisp/vc-hooks.el
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ The function walks up the directory tree from FILE looking for WITNESS.
 If WITNESS if not found, return nil, otherwise return the root."
   ;; Represent /home/luser/foo as ~/foo so that we don't try to look for
   ;; witnesses in /home or in /.
-  (while (not (file-directory-p file))
+  (while (and (not (file-directory-p file)) (file-exists-p file))
     (setq file (file-name-directory (directory-file-name file))))
   (setq file (abbreviate-file-name file))
   (let ((root nil)