bug#50572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] fix VC to find the responsible backend with the most specific path.

[Manuel Giraud]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 13.09.2021 19:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Manuel Giraud<manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:47:19 +0200
>>>
>>> When calling 'vc-next-action' on an unregistered file, VC could choose a
>>> backend that is very far above this file in the directory hierarchy.
>>>
>>> In my case, it chooses SVN as backend (because I have one in my homedir)
>>> but I wanted it to choose the Git backend of the directory this file
>>> resides.
>>>
>>> This patch solves this issue by selecting the backend with the most
>>> specific (in fact, the longest string) path to the file.
>> Isn't that already available with "C-u C-x v v"?
>
> A better default is an improvement anyway.
>
> I think the patch is a good idea, especially given that
> vc-responsible-backend has only recently been changed in the same way
> (commit 2697123933).

I see: this is the same functionality. Should I package this selection
into a function then?
-- 
Manuel Giraud