Hi Paul, > > When you set vc-follow-symlinks to nil, > > I don't want to do that. I want to edit just one file and have it affect > everything I'm working on
"gnulib-tool -S" and (setq vc-follow-symlinks nil) achieves just that, as far as I can see from experiments. > without hassling me about it. You could get rid of the useless warning "Warning: symbolic link to Git-controlled source file" since you are close to the Emacs developers. > Better, I suppose, would be setting vc-follow-symlinks to t, When you set vc-follow-symlinks to t, then at the next file you open, it shows you the directory of the gnulib checkout, not the testdir's contents. Which is usually not what you want. > for other > stuff that I'm working on, where the default value 'ask' is often the right > thing to do. Well, in this case, if for other projects 'ask' is better, I'll implement the options -h / --hardlink, -H / --more-hardlinks. Bruno
