From 53dab179d324b7f92daa1b1b4b2776ac073eaf21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:24:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (vc-cvs-merge-news): Yet annother fix of message parsing.

---
 lisp/ChangeLog | 4 ++++
 lisp/vc-cvs.el | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index ca7cc805b70..4eca8d90491 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-08-14  Sam Steingold  <sds@gnu.org>
+
+	* vc-cvs.el (vc-cvs-merge-news): Yet annother fix of message parsing.
+
 2009-08-13  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
 
 	* faces.el (help-argument-name): Define it here instead of
diff --git a/lisp/vc-cvs.el b/lisp/vc-cvs.el
index 6ef8db50537..9d153e5c9fc 100644
--- a/lisp/vc-cvs.el
+++ b/lisp/vc-cvs.el
@@ -458,7 +458,8 @@ The changes are between FIRST-REVISION and SECOND-REVISION."
           (if (re-search-forward
                (concat "^\\([CMUP] \\)?"
                        (regexp-quote
-                        (substring file (length default-directory)))
+                        (substring file (length (expand-file-name
+                                                 "." default-directory))))
                        "\\( already contains the differences between \\)?")
                nil t)
               (cond