> From: Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> > > With the above change, the test suite runs with zero failures, so it > > doesn't affect any common Git usage. > > It means the test suite is incomplete. As you can see, the commit > introducing this change does not come with a test case to catch people > changing this.
Who should be blamed for omitting the test? > > Can someone give me advice on what this code *should* do? > > It does as the function name says: given cwd, a prefix (i.e. a > relative path with no ".." components) and a path relative to > cwd+prefix, convert 'path' to something relative to cwd. In the > simplest case, prepending the prefix to 'path' is enough. cwd is also > get_git_work_tree(). But as you can see, the exact behavior that the function is intended to exhibit regarding symlinks is not clear from the function name; there should have been a real explanation in the comment above the function. Dale -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
