Re: [PATCH 1/3] make_absolute_path: Don't try to copy a string to itself

> On mar, 2011-03-15 at 12:59 +0100, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:
>> On lun, 2011-03-14 at 15:58 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> writes:
> [...]
>> > 
>> > >  There is however the extra functionality the function offers, namely
>> > > resolving links. It might be good to split it into two functions so each
>> > > caller can specify what it wants.
>> > 
>> > Probably.
>> 
>>  With the changes mentioned earlier, if you want an absolute pathname,
>> you'd call absolute_path/make_nonrelative_path and if you want to make
>> sure you have the real path of the target file, you'd use real_path just
>> as you'd use realpath on a sane system, with
>
>  ... a comment on the functions and maybe some documentation in
> Documentation/techncal, as it doesn't seem to exist yet.