Re: Project systems (again)

[Stefan Monnier]

> When support for projects of that nature were added, what I quickly found
> was that walking up the directory tree searching for them really hammered
> the auto-mounter on networked file systems.

Currently, we walk up the tree several times per find-file for VC's
backend detection.  So this is a "solved" problem (use
locate-dominating-file, which should really be named
locate-dominating-dir, but it's not worth the trouble renaming it).


        Stefan