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From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] abspath: add a function to resolve paths with missing components
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 23:54:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <X8gpMUtAHsQ/NfTl@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2012021406020.25979@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

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On 2020-12-02 at 13:09:49, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I am having a hard time with the name `missing_components`. Taking a step
> back, I think that we are interested in essentially two modes: allow one
> missing component, or an arbitrary amount of missing components.
> 
> If this assumption is correct, we may not even need to count components at
> all. We only need a flag indicating whether we allow only the last
> component to be missing, or any number of components. Maybe something like
> `error_on_missing_parent_directory` or some such?

That's certainly easier.  I hope to get a reroll out this week, and I'll
simplify when I do that.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-02 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-27 23:19 [PATCH v3 0/2] rev-parse options for absolute or relative paths brian m. carlson
2020-11-27 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] abspath: add a function to resolve paths with missing components brian m. carlson
2020-11-28 10:08   ` René Scharfe
2020-11-28 18:41     ` brian m. carlson
2020-12-02 13:09   ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-12-02 23:54     ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2020-11-27 23:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] rev-parse: add option for absolute or relative path formatting brian m. carlson
2020-12-02 13:12 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] rev-parse options for absolute or relative paths Johannes Schindelin

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