Re: [PATCH] Use nonrelative paths instead of absolute paths for cloned repositories
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Jun 6, 2008, 03:23 UTC
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- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806060422310.21190@racer>
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- <alpine.LNX.1.00.0806052244300.19665@iabervon.org>
Hi,
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Particularly for the "alternates" file, if one will be created, we want > a path that doesn't depend on the current directory, but we want to > retain any symlinks in the path as given and any in the user's view of > the current directory when the path was given.
I have to say that I do not follow why the symlinks should be trusted any more than the absolute paths.
Ciao, Dscho