On 10/16/07, Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> > Blair Zajac wrote:
> >> I need a version of svn_opt_parse_path() that doesn't canonicalize it's
> >> arguments for relative externals (the scheme relative
> >> //hostname/path/to/repos has it's // collapsed to / so it becomes a
> >> server root relative URL).
> >
> > Could you simply test for "//" before parsing the path, then re-add the
> > extra forward slash after parsing if the prior test returned true?
>
> Yes, but svn_opt_parse_path() always returns canonicalized paths, even though
> its documentation in svn_path.h doesn't say so.
>
> Do you think most users of svn_opt_parse_path() know they can pass in
> uncanonicalized and always get back canonicalized paths? If not, then I can
> relax the code.
>
> I may have to audit all uses of svn_opt_parse_path() and ensure that the result
> is passed through one of the canonicalization functions.
>
> Blair
>
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Earlier you said "If we ever want to support relative URLs", do you
know if there is anyone trying to implement that? I'm very interested
in having that capability and thought I might take a look at working
on it.
Troy
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Received on Wed Oct 17 05:09:31 2007