From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:28:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH/PATCH] prefix_path(): disallow absolute paths
Message-ID: <7v3ashqedx.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <479ED3AE.5000403@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> I appreciate this new sanitary_copy_path() because I expect that we will
> need at least one less #ifdef __MINGW32__/#endif compared to our current
> Windows port.

I would have expected that the whole function would have
platform specific implementation to deal with Windows, not just
ifdef sprinkled everywhere that says "Oh, on this platform
directory separator is a backslash".

Especially I have no idea how would that drive lettter stuff
would/should work.  When you are in C:\Documents\Panda\, how
would you express D:\Movie\Porn\My Favorite.mpg as a relative
path?