On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Josh Pieper wrote:
> Klaus Rennecke wrote:
> > Ben Reser wrote:
> >
> > >[...]
> > >
> > >We need to accept double slashes. See Issue #1779 and my comments on it
> > >in:
> > ><20040311072104.GN13621@occipital.brain.org>
> > >http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-03/0558.shtml
> > >
> > >The correct fix is to fix whatever is segfault when it encouters
> > >multiple slashes...
> > >
> >
> > As stated in an earlier followup
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=69409 I am
> > pretty convinced that this issue is actually part of a more general
> > problem. There should be an algorithm floting around on my desktop
> > somewhere, but I don't have the time to port it from Java and check
> > legal at the moment.
> >
> > Sorry if I'm repeating myself, but I think this may turn ugly if you fix
> > the issue in small increments every time someone finds a new angle to
> > this. See <http://rfc.net/rfc2396.html#s5.2.>
>
> Yes, this is a symptom of a larger problem, namely that
> svn_path_canonicalize doesn't return a canonicalized path. Canonical
> would mean that any two input paths that referenced the same file
> should have the same output path (at least relative to the same root).
> svn_path_canonicalize should really behave more like
> svn_path_get_absolute, except without the requirement that the file or
> path actually exist on disk. I'm working on it now.
>
Good. You might also want to clarify the documentation for
svn_path_canonicalize stating whether it works also for URL:s or not. For
URLs, please be careful to just touch the path component...
Regards,
//Peter
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