Re: [PATCH] Ignore duplicated slashes in git-log

From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Date: Feb 9, 2008, 14:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20080209141645.GB22569@one.firstfloor.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802091323550.11591@racer.site>

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:24:56PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > When I use git-log ... path/name I seem to regularly typo path/name as 
> > path//name (with duplicated slashes) The normal kernel ignores these 
> > duplicated slashes according to POSIX so it's typically no problem, but 
> > git fails and cannot find the correct file name when this happens.
> 
> This is only one case you want to fix.  There are absolute paths, too, and 
> series of "../".

It's hard to imagine anyone typoing sequences of ../ or ./, so at least I personally didn't feel the need to handle that.

> 
> Alas, Junio was quicker than you:
> 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=commitdiff;h=d089ebaad5315325d67db30176df1bbd7754fda9

Great.

-Andi