From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:23:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use nonrelative paths instead of absolute paths for cloned repositories
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806060422310.21190@racer>
In-Reply-To: <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