On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:29:14PM -0700, David Turner wrote: > > 4. Return the last object we could resolve, as I described. So > [...] > > Actually, I think 4 has an insurmountable problem. Here's the case I'm > thinking of: > > ln -s .. morx > > Imagine that we go to look up 'morx/fleem'. Now morx is the "last > object we could resolve", but we don't know how much of our input has > been consumed at this point. So consumers don't know that after they > exit the repo, they still need to find fleem next to it.
Yes, agreed (my list was written before Andreas brought up the idea of symlinks in the intermediate paths). I think to let the caller pick up where you left off, you would have to create a new string that has the "remainder" concatenated to it. -Peff -- 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
