Here's my attempt at make_absolute_path() and friends. I think this version handles symlinks cleanly to avoid problems with '..' path elements Junio pointed out recently. I built these with another patch I previously submitted to make git-config consistently use lockfile.c routines and tested it with the regular test suite plus some extra tests Junio sent to the list for checking git-config symlink handling. I also built a separate executable with just the path handling routines in it and spot-checked several cases to make sure it appeared to be working as expected. ('/', loop of symlinks, lots of extra slashes, . and .. elements, etc.) Best Regards, Bradford - 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