From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks?
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:05:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150429230543.GA3887@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150429221907.GS5467@google.com>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 03:19:07PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jeff King wrote:
>
> > 1. Git has to make a decision about what to do in corner cases. What
> > is our cwd for relative links? The project root?
>
> I don't follow. Isn't symlink resolution always relative to the
> symlink, regardless of cwd?
Yeah, I was being silly to think this was a concern for intra-repository
links. It's well-defined there. E.g., if "foo/bar/baz" points to
"../moof", that is just "foo/moof".
But if we leave the git tree the location of our root matters. E.g., if
"foo/bar/baz" points to "../../../../moof", where is that anchored in
the filesystem? So perhaps "cwd" is not the right term. It is really
"where are we pretending our working tree is".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-29 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-29 20:57 RFC: git cat-file --follow-symlinks? David Turner
2015-04-29 21:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 21:24 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 21:30 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:48 ` Jeff King
2015-04-29 22:19 ` Jonathan Nieder
2015-04-29 23:05 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-04-29 22:29 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 23:11 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 0:37 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:06 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 1:16 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 3:18 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 1:45 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 3:37 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 5:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 8:12 ` Michael Haggerty
2015-04-30 18:03 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 18:28 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:32 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 18:44 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 18:49 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:00 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:10 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:17 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 10:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-30 18:27 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:25 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-30 19:51 ` Jeff King
2015-04-30 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-01 3:29 ` David Turner
2015-05-01 5:36 ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 17:29 ` David Turner
2015-05-01 20:11 ` Jeff King
2015-05-01 21:09 ` David Turner
2015-04-29 21:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-29 22:47 ` David Turner
2015-04-30 8:10 ` Michael Haggerty
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