---- On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:36:33 +0300 Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> wrote ---
> Hello,
>
> This is a continuation of work done back in 2018 [1], so a big thank you to
> everyone who participated in the initial thread, especially Brandon on whose
> code this is partially based upon. Hope you are still around and doing well. :)
>
> It's mostly a rewrite from scratch addressig open feedback. I decided to
> iterate upen Brandon's url-encoding design instead of pursuing alternatives
> like a custom encoding, name hashing or round-trip encoding/decoding using
> an in-memory git mapping (we'd still have to encode/hash the paths to avoid
> colflicts so IIUC this last one is more complicated for little gain).
>
> I tried to organize and explain the commits in a logical way which is also
> easy to review, keeping the encoding parts, new tests, code moving around
> and path update churn as clearly separated as possible.
>
> This is based on master and I've merged and succesfully run all tests in
> both the next and seen branches.
I also ran the GitHub CI pipeline and noticed there are failures on Win + Mac.
I will address those in v2.
In the meantime I'll leave v1 for a while on the ML to gather more feedback.
Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>