Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > By the way, is the use of realpath(3) permissible in git code? > GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES handling could be fixed relatively easily by > using this function to canonicalize pathnames before comparison. As long as we can add a compat/realpath.c (perhaps lift one from glibc before they went GPLv3) for platforms that matter, I do not see it as a huge problem. How close is abspath.c::real_path() to what you need? > [1] This would be analogous to the inclusion of a space in "trash > directory.*", which I presume was done to detect space-handling problems > quickly. Yeah, understood where you are coming from, and I think I can agree with where you are trying to go. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html