Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2018, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYnbjaPoWdda0SM_-_X77mVyYC7JO61OV8nm2yj3Q1OvQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180829211802.GG7547@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:18 PM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Stefan Beller wrote:
>
> >> Yes, that makes even the capitalized "CON" issues go away. It's not a
> >> one-to-one mapping, though ("foo-" and "foo_" map to the same entity).
> >
> > foo_ would map to foo__, and foo- would map to something else.
> > (foo- as we do not rewrite dashes, yet?)
> >
> >> If we want that, too, I think something like url-encoding is fine, with
> >> the caveat that we simply urlencode _more_ things (i.e., anything not in
> >> [a-z_]).
> >
> > Yeah I think we need more than url encoding now.
>
> Can you say more?

https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kZv4BjRq=kq_1UeT2Kn38OZwYFgnMsTe6X_WP41=hBtSQ@mail.gmail.com/

> Can you spell out for me what problem we're solving with something more custom?

case sensitivity for example.

> the ability to tweak things later.

That is unrelated to the choice of encoding, but more related to https://public-inbox.org/git/20180816181940.46114-1-bmwill@google.com/