Re: svn cp bug?

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> > I've fixed the immediate problem by adding an svn_path_is_empty_nts
> > check, that's how it's done elsewhere in the code. I guess we need a
> > path canonicalization issue, if we don't have one already.
>
> We have several distinct ones, and for all I know we need several new
> ones :-). (That is, do we have one path canonicalization issue, or
> many, possibly interrelated, ones?)

The problems I was referring to are that the Subversion libraries
internally use both "." and "" to refer to the current directory, the
svn_path_xxx functions do not always do the right thing when given a
"" or "." argument, and some APR functions don't work with "".

Some people have expressed the opinion that path canonicalization
should be handled by APR. I'm not sure where that leaves the
svn_path_xxx functions, since it doesn't make sense to try to split,
join and manipulate paths in Subversion if the canonical form is
determined by APR.

-- 
Philip Martin
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