bug#8175: 23.3; Re-opening a link to a file that has become version-controlled doesn't cause question about following link to be asked

[Reuben Thomas]

Sequence:

1. Visit a file via a symlink. The file is not under version control.

2. Close the buffer. The file is no longer open.

3. In the same Emacs session, re-visit the file. Emacs opens the file,
but doesn’t ask if I want to follow a symlink to a file under version
control (in this case, under git).

If I restart Emacs between steps 2 & 3, the expected behavior is
obtained (the question is asked).


In GNU Emacs 23.3.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
 of 2011-03-02 on canta
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: CPerl

Minor modes in effect:
  flyspell-mode: t
  recentf-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  savehist-mode: t
  minibuffer-electric-default-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  icomplete-mode: t
  global-whitespace-mode: t
  global-auto-revert-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f <up> <return> y e s <return> <help-echo> M-x 
r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Scanning for "hard" Perl constructions... done
Scanning for "hard" Perl constructions... done
Followed link to /home/rrt/Software/woger/woger
Loading nxml-mode...done
Using vacuous schema
Scanning for "hard" Perl constructions... done
Loading sgml-mode...done
Scanning for "hard" Perl constructions... done
Scanning for "hard" Perl constructions... done

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/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/dictionary-el/link
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/elpa/dictionary-1.8.7/connection hides 
/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/dictionary-el/connection
/home/rrt/.emacs.d/elpa/dictionary-1.8.7/dictionary-init hides 
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/usr/local/share/emacs/23.3/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fptex hides 
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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/tex-fold
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