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Re: [RFC] Paths API (svn_dirent_uri.h) - improvements

From: Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:06 +0000

On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 14:08 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:25:49PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> > DIRENT:
> >
> > A "dirent" represents a native operating-system path... but let's be
> > clear exactly what kinds of absolute and relative path this includes.
> >
> > The representation seems a bit odd, using Subversion's "canonical path"
> > rules ("/" separator, etc.), rather than the native form, and so
> > requiring "to_internal_style" and "to_native_style" conversions.
>
> One observation I've made recently: On UNIX, passing a path containing
> backslash-separators (e.g. a path parsed from a patch file) to
> svn_dirent_internal_style() does absolutely nothing.
> It just returns the path unmodified.

Isn't that working as designed? A Unix path is allowed to contain
backslash characters, and they are not treated as path separators, so
"my\file" is a valid Unix filename, consisting of one component.

- Julian

> On Windows, passing a path containing backslash-separators
> to svn_dirent_internal_style() does convert any backslashes
> to forward slashes...
>
> So the to_internal_style and to_native_style don't even work
> as one might expect -- they don't always convert to the internal
> style, it depends on the platform.

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