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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Improve handling of "." and ".." in git-diff-*
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:54:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b05082312542bd1ecc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b050823124938d735bf@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/23/05, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > NOTE! This does _not_ handle ".." or "." in the _middle_ of a pathspec. If
> > you have people who do
> 
> BTW, could this (below) be useful for something?
> 

Well, a bit of explanation is certainly missing, sorry. The code tries
to emulate
(on purely text level)  the behaviour of chdir(2), including stopping at root,
going back and forth and removing useless (not changing directory)
parts like "/./".

The file in the previous message can be tested with :

  gcc -DCHECK_PATHEXPAND patchexpand.c && ./aout

Cheers,
Alex Riesen.

PS: Before anyone asked: the code is mine and free for any use.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-23 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-17  3:44 Improve handling of "." and ".." in git-diff-* Linus Torvalds
2005-08-17  3:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-23 19:49 ` Alex Riesen
2005-08-23 19:54   ` Alex Riesen [this message]

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