From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:45:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Extract, test and enhance the logic to collapse ../foo paths.
Message-ID: <20120926194504.GA5013@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <5016F2A5.1090102@pobox.com>

Hi,

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On 2012.7.30 12:51 PM, Eric Wong wrote:
>> Michael G Schwern wrote:

>>> _collapse_dotdot() works better than the existing regex did.
>>
>> I don't dispute it's better, but it's worth explaining in the commit
>> message to reviewers why something is "better".
>
> Yeah.  I figured the tests covered that.

Now I'm tripping up on the same thing.  Eric, did you ever find out
what the motivation for this patch was?  Is SVN 1.7 more persnickety
about runs of multiple slashes in a row or something, or is it more
of an aesthetic thing?

Puzzled,
Jonathan