This comment was added in 851c2b3791 (Teach notes code to properly preserve non-notes in the notes tree, 2010-02-13) when the corresponding code was added. But I believe it was incorrect even then. The condition `path_len != 2` a dozen lines up prevents a path like "dead/beef" from being converted to "de/ad/beef", and indeed the test added in commit 851c2b3 verifies that this case works correctly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <[email protected]> --- notes.c | 24 +++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/notes.c b/notes.c index fbed8c3013..62ab3f4ce3 100644 --- a/notes.c +++ b/notes.c @@ -468,23 +468,13 @@ static void load_subtree(struct notes_tree *t, struct leaf_node *subtree, handle_non_note: /* - * Determine full path for this non-note entry: - * The filename is already found in entry.path, but the - * directory part of the path must be deduced from the subtree - * containing this entry. We assume here that the overall notes - * tree follows a strict byte-based progressive fanout - * structure (i.e. using 2/38, 2/2/36, etc. fanouts, and not - * e.g. 4/36 fanout). This means that if a non-note is found at - * path "dead/beef", the following code will register it as - * being found on "de/ad/beef". - * On the other hand, if you use such non-obvious non-note - * paths in the middle of a notes tree, you deserve what's - * coming to you ;). Note that for non-notes that are not - * SHA1-like at the top level, there will be no problems. - * - * To conclude, it is strongly advised to make sure non-notes - * have at least one non-hex character in the top-level path - * component. + * Determine full path for this non-note entry. The + * filename is already found in entry.path, but the + * directory part of the path must be deduced from the + * subtree containing this entry based on our + * knowledge that the overall notes tree follows a + * strict byte-based progressive fanout structure + * (i.e. using 2/38, 2/2/36, etc. fanouts). */ { struct strbuf non_note_path = STRBUF_INIT; -- 2.11.0
