From 66752bb47da390885d7ed199c78786985abf8a10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Monnier Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:49:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (vc-find-root): Walk up the tree to find an existing `file' from which to start the search. --- lisp/ChangeLog | 10 +++++++--- lisp/vc-hooks.el | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index 437b39a60aa..779c2093846 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ +2007-07-19 Stefan Monnier + + * vc-hooks.el (vc-find-root): Walk up the tree to find an existing + `file' from which to start the search. + 2007-07-19 Eric S. Raymond - * vc-cvs.el: vc-cvs-checkin had some reference problems, now - fixed. - + * vc-cvs.el: vc-cvs-checkin had some reference problems, now fixed. 2007-07-19 Stefan Monnier + * files.el (locate-dominating-file): New function. 2007-07-18 Michael Albinus diff --git a/lisp/vc-hooks.el b/lisp/vc-hooks.el index 809b49a4d0e..19b309ee203 100644 --- a/lisp/vc-hooks.el +++ b/lisp/vc-hooks.el @@ -317,6 +317,8 @@ 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-exists-p file)) + (setq file (file-name-directory (directory-file-name file)))) (setq file (abbreviate-file-name file)) (let ((root nil) (user (nth 2 (file-attributes file)))) -- 2.39.2