Re: svn propedit cannot chdir

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> >This behaviour is enforced by the path-split regression tests. Within
> >the subversion code there are some places where "" works as the
> >current directory, and there are some where it doesn't work.
> >
>
> "" should always work, and we shouldn't have to do
> (platform-specific?) checks for that in our code, those should be in
> APR. (All of which implies that our canonicalization should just strip
> off any leading ".[/]", thereby changeing "." to "".)

I asked earlier and was told "." was a canonical path. Can "" be
canonical as well? Can we have two canonical forms for the same
path?

If the subversion libraries are to work with both "" and "." then the
path library needs attention

1. svn_path_is_child("", "foo")

   This gives NULL but I think "foo" would be better.

2. svn_path_get_longest_ancestor("", "foo")

   This gives NULL but I think "" (assumming "" is canonical!) would
   be better. I think we also need to look at (".", "foo") here.

-- 
Philip Martin
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org