Github user madrob commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/curator/pull/54#issuecomment-63331319
We already consider it valid to call with an empty parent and child, so it
would not be too surprising to have makePath() behave the same as
makePath(null) and makePath(null, null) by returning "/".
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