From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Bradford C Smith <bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] another attempt at make_absolute_path()
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:22:30 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707272022090.14781@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11855634561516-git-send-email-bradford.carl.smith@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Bradford C Smith wrote:
> Here's my attempt at make_absolute_path() and friends. I think this
> version handles symlinks cleanly to avoid problems with '..' path
> elements Junio pointed out recently.
>
> I built these with another patch I previously submitted to make
> git-config consistently use lockfile.c routines and tested it with the
> regular test suite plus some extra tests Junio sent to the list for
> checking git-config symlink handling.
>
> I also built a separate executable with just the path handling routines
> in it and spot-checked several cases to make sure it appeared to be
> working as expected. ('/', loop of symlinks, lots of extra slashes, .
> and .. elements, etc.)
Heh. Just a couple of minutes after I sent my version...
Although I added tests, and you did not...
Ciao,
Dscho
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 19:10 [PATCH 0/2] another attempt at make_absolute_path() Bradford C Smith
2007-07-27 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] added file path helper routines Bradford C Smith
2007-07-27 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] use make_absolute_path() in lock_file() Bradford C Smith
2007-07-27 19:22 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
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