From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:32:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/6] git-check-attr: Normalize paths
Message-ID: <4E3E1548.3080502@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7vaabn52bb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 08/05/2011 05:02 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> If I understand you correctly, the use of some API routines requires a
>> chdir by the caller (i.e., the surrounding application) *before* calling
>> into the routine.  This is certainly a bit cleaner than the library
>> chdiring itself, but it is still unusable in a multithreaded context.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Presumably you know what your threads are doing, so if you take input from
> the end user after you started the environment, you will be doing the
> prefix discovery and pathspec prefixing on the entry and prefix stripping
> upon output but do not have to (and should not be doing) chdir at all.

I must have misunderstood your earlier message.  Indeed, if none of the
git functions that one would want to libify require that CWD==project
root, then all is OK.

Michael

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