From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:29:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Fix gitdir detection when in subdir of gitdir
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901161729070.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1232120253-1551-1-git-send-email-szeder@ira.uka.de>

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

>   I'm not sure about setting an absolut path instead of a relative one 
>   (hence the RFC), although I think it should not make any difference. 
>   Of course I could have count the number of chdir("..") calls and then 
>   construct a "../../..", but that would have been more intrusive than 
>   this two-liner.

IIRC the absolute paths were shot down already... for performance reasons.

So we try very hard to keep relative paths instead of absolute ones.

Ciao,
Dscho