Hi, On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > In the longer term, we would inevitably face "when should one use > nonrelative and when should one use absolute?" and we would eventually > have to answer it. It may turn out that many current users of > "absolute" are better off using "nonrelative", but I suspect we won't > get rid of "absolute" completely, because one of the reasons it avoids > symlinks at great lengths is so that it can check the containment > relationships between paths reliably (e.g. "is this path outside the > repository, in which case we should refuse to add it to the index, and > we use --no-index without being asked when running "diff""). > > But using "absolute" for containment comparison is one thing. Storing > the result of "absolute" is quite another. The easy way would be to add an option to make_absolute_path(), say "resolve_symlinks". Ciao, Dscho -- 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
