From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle double slashes in make_relative_path()
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:00:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201001232000.28896.j6t@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001231448.42721.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
On Samstag, 23. Januar 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
> lördagen den 23 januari 2010 14.09.29 skrev Johannes Sixt:
> > The function returns either the input unmodified, or it strips also at
> > least one directory component, except when base is only "/" (or "//" or
> > "///"...). I said in practice, because on Windows it does not make sense
> > to invoke git with (literally)
> >
> > git --git-dir=//server/share/repo.git --work-tree=/ ...
> >
> > i.e., without a drive prefix before the slash of --work-tree.
>
> Why not? //foo/bar/z is just as valid and useful a path as x:/z.
Fortunately, make_relative_path() does not have the slightest problem
with //foo/bar/z, either as value of abs (the path to make relative) or as
base (the path to strip from abs).
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-23 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-22 0:07 [PATCH] Handle double slashes in make_relative_path() Thomas Rast
2010-01-22 1:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-22 3:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-22 8:36 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-01-23 11:40 ` Robin Rosenberg
2010-01-23 13:09 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-01-23 13:48 ` Robin Rosenberg
2010-01-23 19:00 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-01-23 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-23 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-23 20:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-01-23 21:01 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-01-24 13:57 ` Thomas Rast
2010-01-24 19:04 ` Bernhard R. Link
2010-01-24 20:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-24 16:44 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-01-24 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-25 1:06 ` Robin Rosenberg
2010-01-22 21:11 ` Thomas Rast
2010-01-22 23:35 ` Junio C Hamano
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