From: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:55:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] relative_path should honor dos_drive_prefix
Message-ID: <CANYiYbE6nT+9LrekWp7mryJ13RxQBSQ+p6EyQspAKBMj7oG0zQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8uz1q2i4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

2013/9/13 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>
> For systems that need POSIX escape hatch for Apollo Domain ;-), we
> would need a bit more work.  When both path1 and path2 begin with a
> double-dash, we would need to check if they match up to the next
> slash, so that
>
>  - //host1/usr/src and //host1/usr/lib share the same root and the
>    former can be made to ../src relative to the latter;
>
>  - //host1/usr/src and //host2/usr/lib are of separate roots.
>
> or something.
>
>

But how could we know which platform supports network pathnames and
needs such implementation.

-- 
Jiang Xin