This is close enough to what I want that I could definitely use it if it were in the main tree. I read through most of that thread, but I couldn't figure out what ever happened to your patch. (I couldn't find a clear rejection, but I also don't see it in master.) --David Alex Riesen wrote: > David Reiss, Tue, May 20, 2008 08:48:54 +0200: >> normalize_absolute_path removes several oddities form absolute paths, >> giving nice clean paths like "/dir/sub1/sub2". Also add a test case >> for this utility, based on a new test program (in the style of test-sha1). > > Heh... > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/68786/focus=68812 > > The test of the function has these cases: > > static void check(const char *cwd, const char *path, const char *good); > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > /* 1 */ check("/onelevel", "aa", "onelevel/aa"); > /* 2 */ check("/", "..", ""); > /* 3 */ check("/", "../..", ""); > /* 4 */ check("/one", "aa/../bb", "one/bb"); > /* 5 */ check("/one/two", "aa//bb", "one/two/aa/bb"); > /* 6 */ check("", "/aa//bb", "aa/bb"); > /* 7 */ check("/one/two", "", "one/two"); > /* 8 */ check("/one/two", "aa/..bb/x/../cc/", "one/two/aa/..bb/cc"); > /* 9 */ check("/one/two", "aa/x/././cc////", "one/two/aa/x/cc"); > /* 10 */ check("/one/two", "../../../../aa", "aa"); > /* 11 */ check("one/", "../one/two", "one/two"); > /* 12 */ check("", "../../two", "two"); > /* 13 */ check("a/b/c", "../../two", "a/two"); > /* 14 */ check("a/b/", "../two", "a/two"); > /* 15 */ check("///", "../two", "two"); > return 0; > } > > static void check(const char *cwd, const char *path, const char *good) > { > static int n = 0; > printf("%-2d: %10s$ cd %s", ++n, cwd, path); > char *t = pathexpand(cwd, path); > if ( strcmp(t, good) ) > printf(" ____________________failed(%s)\n", t); > else > printf(" \033[32m%s\033[0m\n", t); > free(t); > } > > -- 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