On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44:46AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patches around [PATCH 06-08/15] made some unexpected (at least to > me) turns but the series told a coherent story, building on top of > what has been achieved in the previous steps. Yeah, those patches are not technically required for the rest of it. The "strbuf" conversion for oc->path is just something I've wanted to fix for a long time. It made sense to me to do it before teaching handle_dotdot() to look at oc->path (because the interface to do so changed a bit). -Peff