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Re: [PATCH 3/3] read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversion

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
May 14, 2009, 22:47 UTC
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On Fri, 15 May 2009, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Thu, 14 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > The use of "//" as the filesystem path component separator may be odd,
> 
> Hopefully it will not bite us on Windows: "//fileserver/x" is different 
> from "/fileserver/x" there: the former tries to access the share "x" of 
> samba server "fileserver", while the latter will expand to "C:\Program 
> Files\Git\fileserver\x" (or wherever you installed Git).
It only does it in the middle of names, so it should be safe.

That said, it's also meant to be just a temporary debugging aid. I'm fine with the '//' part not being merged.

			Linus
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Message 8 of 13 in “dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in read_directory_recursive()”
  1. 1/3 dir.c: clean up handling of 'path' parameter in read_directory_recursive()Linus Torvalds, May 14, 2009
  2. 2/3 Add 'fill_directory()' helper function for directory traversalLinus Torvalds, May 14, 2009
  3. 3/3 read_directory(): infrastructure for pathname character set conversionLinus Torvalds, May 14, 2009
  4. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinMay 14, 2009
  6. Aaron CohenMay 14, 2009
  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2009
  8. Linus TorvaldsMay 14, 2009
  9. 4/3 Introduce 'convert_path_to_git()'Linus Torvalds, May 15, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2009
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 16, 2009
  12. Jens KilianMay 19, 2009
  13. John KoleszarMay 19, 2009

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