Re: path canonicalization problem (issue #559)

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:13:35PM +0100, Branko _ibej wrote:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> >Hmm. Branko, did your commit of revision 923 fix issue #559?
> >
> No, I didn't touch those functions, except for ripping out
> svn_path_*_style. So the problem is probably still there. I can look at
> it, if you like, but not before Monday.

i did a little poking around with this a few days ago, and it's not
promising...

now that we've removed the path types, we're back to the problem that
we pass quite a few url's into svn_path_canonicalize, and we don't
have any way to determine how to handle them. removing extraneous .'s
and ..'s isn't too hard, but removing redundant /'s is a bitch,
because we have to be sure not to wipe out the // in the urls.

if anyone has a good solution for this, i'd love to hear it. i don't
want to return to passing path types into all the svn_path functions,
and having some kind of heuristic to determine what to remove and what
to leave just seems clunky and prone to failure.

-garrett

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