From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFH/PATCH] prefix_path(): disallow absolute paths
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:31:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vprvlowwg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479ED92E.4020709@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:43:42 +0100")
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> The #ifdef I'm addressing above is one that we had to introduce because in
> the old implementation of prefix_path() on Windows we had to rewrite the
> path more often than on *nix due to '\\' => '/' conversion. In your new
> implementation this rewriting now always takes place, but on *nix it more
> often turns out to be an identity operation.
I am not sure what you mean by "\\" => '/', but you are right.
We should be able to optimize the common case of prefix=none and
no special path components found in path, which should be an
identity function.
>> Especially I have no idea how would that drive lettter stuff
>> would/should work. When you are in C:\Documents\Panda\, how
>> would you express D:\Movie\Porn\My Favorite.mpg as a relative
>> path?
>
> You can't. But when would this be necessary?
I don't know. That's why I asked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-29 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-23 15:14 git-clean buglet Johannes Sixt
2008-01-23 15:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-23 15:29 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-23 15:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-27 19:55 ` [PATCH] Fix off by one error in prep_exclude Shawn Bohrer
2008-01-27 20:44 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-27 21:15 ` Shawn Bohrer
2008-01-27 22:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-28 0:34 ` Shawn Bohrer
2008-01-28 0:37 ` Shawn Bohrer
2008-01-28 11:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-28 12:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-28 2:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-28 7:12 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-28 8:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-28 9:05 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-28 9:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-28 12:33 ` [RFH/PATCH] prefix_path(): disallow absolute paths Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-28 15:05 ` [PATCH] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-29 1:23 ` [RFH/PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 2:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 2:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 7:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 8:29 ` [PATCH] setup: sanitize absolute and funny paths in get_pathspec() Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 4:07 ` [PATCH] Make blame accept absolute paths Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-01 4:34 ` [PATCH] More test cases for sanitized path names Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-01 7:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 9:10 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-01 10:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 10:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 11:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 14:17 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-02-01 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-01 9:16 ` Karl Hasselström
2008-02-01 9:50 ` [PATCH for post 1.5.4] Sane use of test_expect_failure Junio C Hamano
2008-02-02 10:06 ` [PATCH] " Junio C Hamano
2008-03-07 8:23 ` [PATCH] More test cases for sanitized path names Junio C Hamano
2008-03-07 15:24 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-01-29 2:37 ` [RFH/PATCH] prefix_path(): disallow absolute paths Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-29 2:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 2:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-29 7:20 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-29 7:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 7:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-29 8:31 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-29 21:53 ` しらいしななこ
2008-01-30 0:43 ` Junio C Hamano
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