bug#71200: TRAMP: Trying to do a project-find-file or (find-directory) using the podman method causes a (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) error

[alexis purslane]

So on one of my containers project.el works (thats why I thought the problem 
went away), but on the other two it doesn't. Just figured out what it was: the 
other two don't have git installed at all.

On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 5:14 PM, alexis purslane <alexispurslane@pm.me> 
wrote:

> Scratch that, it's back. Steps:
> 

> 1. run emacs -Q
> 2. Do {C-x p p}
> 3. Enter `...` to add a new project
> 4. Enter a podman container location such as: 
> /podman:texlive-latest:Documents/Awesome-CV/
> 5. Hit {ENT}, then {f}
> 6. Error happens.
> 

> For comparison, you can do:
> 

> 7. {M-x eshell}
> 8. `cd /podman:texlive-latest:Documents/Awesome-CV/`
> 9. Do ls, find-file, whatever you like, watch it work perfectly
> 10. Do `podman exec -it texlive-latest bash`
> 11. See that work perfectly.
> 

> 

> 

> On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 5:07 PM, alexis purslane alexispurslane@pm.me 
> wrote:
> 

> > As it happens (and I can hardly believe this, this is the second bug
> > I've reported that has ended like this) without /any/ changes of my own
> > whatsoever to my config, just deleting my ~/.emacs.d/ completely and
> > then recloning my config from git (minus the code snipped I posted
> > above to fix the issue I was having), the problem has... utterly
> > disappeared, as far as I can tell. Many apologies for the, seemingly,
> > false alarm, and I'll follow up with replication steps if I'm ever able
> > to replicate this.
> > 

> > On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 3:35 PM, alexis purslane alexispurslane@pm.me 
> > wrote:
> > 

> > > I'll get to this as soon as I can :)
> > > 

> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > On 5/26/24 11:33 AM, Michael Albinus michael.albinus@gmx.de wrote:
> > > 

> > > > Dmitry Gutov dmitry@gutov.dev writes:
> > > > 

> > > > > Hi Michael,
> > > > 

> > > > Hi Dmitry,
> > > > 

> > > > > From what I understand this scenario only fails when using the
> > > > > 'podman' transport, but not 'ssh' transport - I'm using
> > > > > project-find-file and related commands over Tramp with no problem.
> > > > > 

> > > > > That makes it a Tramp bug, doesn't it? Somewhere in podman support 
> > > > > code.
> > > > 

> > > > In this case, I need a step-by-step recipe, starting with "emacs -Q".
> > > > 

> > > > Best regards, Michael.

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