bug#19521: 25.0.50; EDE show "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" when there is a ".git" in the HOME directory

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lin Sun (孙林) <Lin.Sun@mediatek.com> writes:

> I got an error message "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" when try to
> open an file in my home directory. The issue can simply reproduce
> on Emacs-25.0 (develop version) with follow steps:
> 1. mkdir ~/.git
> 2. emacs -q
> 3. eval (global-ede-mode) and (ede-enable-generic-projects) to enable
> EDE and the EDE generic projects.
> 4. eval (find-file "~/a.el")

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately have not received
any responses yet.)

I think I've now fixed this in Emacs 27 -- the problem was that ede
bugged out on ~/.git because it didn't expand the "~/" bit, apparently.

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