bug#60264: 29.0.60; Strange file completion candidates for shadowed file paths

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > 1. Start emacs -Q
> > > 2. C-x C-f
> > > 3. Delete the entire minibuffer input
> > > 4. Enter /etc//s
> > > 5. Press ?
> > >
> > > You will see candidates like etc//sbin/. The candidates can get even 
> > > stranger. If you enter /etc//etc//etc/s then you will get candidates 
> > > like etc//etc//etc//sbin/. I can reproduce this bug on 27 and 29. I 
> > > haven't tried 28, but the issue should exist there too.
> >
> > I don't think it's a bug (look at what the minibuffer shows in those 
> > cases), perhaps just a minor aesthetic thing, but I'm adding Stefan in 
> > case he has comments.
>
> He's right, that's a bug.  *Completions* normally only shows the list of 
> matching files in the final directory, so complete filenames.  It's even 
> more true here where the "excess" is not even really part of the file 
> name since it'll be stripped away by `substitute-in-file-name`.
>
> E.g. if you replace "/etc//s" with "~//s" in the example, we show the 
> correct list.

It's a bug indeed, but a very old one, it's also present in Emacs 
24-25-26-27-28.