Matthieu Moy <[email protected]> writes:

> Stefan Reichör <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Hello Stephen!
>>
>> Sadly I don't fully remember if we had a reason to use file-truename in
>> dvc-uniquify-file-name. But I guess it had something to do with tla.
>
> Don't remember the details, and "bzr annotate" gives revision 1 for
> this instance of file-truename (and I'm too lazy to dig the tla
> archive).
>
> One reason we want something unique, IIRC, is to make sure we don't
> create multiple *dvc-status* (or others) buffers for the same
> repository. 

Good point.

I'll add a flag in dvc-uniquefy-file-name, that defaults to "don't
resolve symlinks", but set it to "resolve symlinks" in
dvc-get-buffer-create.

Then if other cases turn up where symlinks should be resolved, we can
set the flag there as well.

-- 
-- Stephe

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