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Clarify documentation of 'vc-responsible-backend' wrt symlinks

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* lisp/vc/vc.el (vc-responsible-backend): Clarify that symlinks
are not resolved when the VC backend is reported.

* doc/lispref/files.texi (Truenames): Document
'vc-responsible-backend'.  (Bug#23436)
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Version Control Systems): Fix a
typo.
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Hong Xu 2016-11-04 12:06:00 +02:00 • committed by Eli Zaretskii
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@ -959,7 +959,11 @@ use."
If FILE is already registered, return the
backend of FILE. If FILE is not registered, then the
first backend in `vc-handled-backends' that declares itself
responsible for FILE is returned."
responsible for FILE is returned.
Note that if FILE is a symbolic link, it will not be resolved --
the responsible backend system for the symbolic link itself will
be reported."
(or (and (not (file-directory-p file)) (vc-backend file))
(catch 'found
;; First try: find a responsible backend. If this is for registration,