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Re: [PATCH] Ignore duplicated slashes in git-log

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 13:24 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0802091323550.11591@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> When I use git-log ... path/name I seem to regularly typo path/name as 
> path//name (with duplicated slashes) The normal kernel ignores these 
> duplicated slashes according to POSIX so it's typically no problem, but 
> git fails and cannot find the correct file name when this happens.

This is only one case you want to fix. There are absolute paths, too, and series of "../".

Alas, Junio was quicker than you:
http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=commitdiff;h=d089ebaad5315325d67db30176df1bbd7754fda9

Hth, Dscho

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