Re: [Monotone-devel] heads up: file system changes

[Stephen Leake]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Closely related question: what the hell is going on with
>> new_optimal_path?  AFAICT all users of that function ought to be using
>> system_path, full stop.
>
> The key issue is what root a relative path is relative to.
>
> system_path constructors assume the input path is relative to the
> original process directory. But I needed a path that is relative to
> the workspace root, when reading from a stored conflicts file.

I remembered the rest of the reason. If the user provides a relative
path in a conflict file, then I want to write out that same relative
path when I update the conflict file.

On the other hand, if the user path is absolute, and not in the
workspace, I need to be able to represent that as well.

So I need as_external() to dispatch on the path type when writing a
path to a conflict file.

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-- Stephe