Re: [RFC] Canonical Paths

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> Also, I'm wondering something. If '' is the canonical empty dir, then
> would:
>
> svn_path_canonicalize ('./foo')
>
> return 'foo' (which feels, for unexplained reasons, like an
> information loss) or '/foo' (which is plain wrong) ?

On a system where '.' denotes the current working directory, then
svn_path_canonicalize ('./foo') should definitely return 'foo'. These
names denote the same object per definition, so there is no information
loss. And since they are by definition the same they _should_
canonicalize to the same name; this name being the "canonical" name
for the object. Hence "canonicalization".

On a system where '.' does _not_ mean the current working directory
(but where '/' is still the directory separator), you should get back
'./foo' because foo would then reside in the distinct directory '.'
which is different from the cwd.

  // Marcus

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Received on Thu Aug 29 19:39:31 2002