fix(filetype): use unexpanded file name (#27931)

When the edited file is a symlink, the unexpanded file name is needed to
to achieve the same behavior as the autocommand pattern matching in Vim.
Neither args.file nor args.match are guaranteed to be unexpanded, so use
bufname() instead.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/functional/lua/filetype_spec.lua b/test/functional/lua/filetype_spec.lua
index 8b0e0a8beb..3ef650a1d2 100644
--- a/test/functional/lua/filetype_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/lua/filetype_spec.lua
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ local api = helpers.api
 local clear = helpers.clear
 local pathroot = helpers.pathroot
 local command = helpers.command
+local mkdir = helpers.mkdir
+local rmdir = helpers.rmdir
+local write_file = helpers.write_file
+local uv = vim.uv
 
 local root = pathroot()
 
@@ -161,10 +165,30 @@ describe('vim.filetype', function()
 end)
 
 describe('filetype.lua', function()
+  before_each(function()
+    mkdir('Xfiletype')
+  end)
+
+  after_each(function()
+    rmdir('Xfiletype')
+  end)
+
   it('does not override user autocommands that set filetype #20333', function()
     clear({
       args = { '--clean', '--cmd', 'autocmd BufRead *.md set filetype=notmarkdown', 'README.md' },
     })
     eq('notmarkdown', api.nvim_get_option_value('filetype', {}))
   end)
+
+  it('uses unexpanded path for matching when editing a symlink #27914', function()
+    mkdir('Xfiletype/.config')
+    mkdir('Xfiletype/actual')
+    write_file('Xfiletype/actual/config', '')
+    uv.fs_symlink(assert(uv.fs_realpath('Xfiletype/actual')), 'Xfiletype/.config/git')
+    finally(function()
+      uv.fs_unlink('Xfiletype/.config/git')
+    end)
+    clear({ args = { '--clean', 'Xfiletype/.config/git/config' } })
+    eq('gitconfig', api.nvim_get_option_value('filetype', {}))
+  end)
 end)