This comment was added in 851c2b3791 (Teach notes code to properly
preserve non-notes in the notes tree, 2010-02-13) when the
corresponding code was added. But I believe it was incorrect even
then. The condition `path_len != 2` a dozen lines up prevents a path
like "dead/beef" from being converted to "de/ad/beef", and indeed the
test added in commit 851c2b3 verifies that this case works correctly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
notes.c | 24 +++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c
index fbed8c3013..62ab3f4ce3 100644
--- a/notes.c
+++ b/notes.c
@@ -468,23 +468,13 @@ static void load_subtree(struct notes_tree *t, struct leaf_node *subtree,
handle_non_note:
/*
- * Determine full path for this non-note entry:
- * The filename is already found in entry.path, but the
- * directory part of the path must be deduced from the subtree
- * containing this entry. We assume here that the overall notes
- * tree follows a strict byte-based progressive fanout
- * structure (i.e. using 2/38, 2/2/36, etc. fanouts, and not
- * e.g. 4/36 fanout). This means that if a non-note is found at
- * path "dead/beef", the following code will register it as
- * being found on "de/ad/beef".
- * On the other hand, if you use such non-obvious non-note
- * paths in the middle of a notes tree, you deserve what's
- * coming to you ;). Note that for non-notes that are not
- * SHA1-like at the top level, there will be no problems.
- *
- * To conclude, it is strongly advised to make sure non-notes
- * have at least one non-hex character in the top-level path
- * component.
+ * Determine full path for this non-note entry. The
+ * filename is already found in entry.path, but the
+ * directory part of the path must be deduced from the
+ * subtree containing this entry based on our
+ * knowledge that the overall notes tree follows a
+ * strict byte-based progressive fanout structure
+ * (i.e. using 2/38, 2/2/36, etc. fanouts).
*/
{
struct strbuf non_note_path = STRBUF_INIT;
--
2.11.0
