From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:24:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore duplicated slashes in git-log
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802091323550.11591@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20080209125457.GA5686@basil.nowhere.org>

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