On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > "Fewest path components, shortest basename, total filename length". > > It's predictable, but it seems a bit arbitrary?
It does seem a bit arbitrary, but I was able to rationalise it as follows: "fewest path components" is good for choosing between "subdir/file" and "../../other-branch/dir/subdir/file"; "shortest basename" is good for choosing between "file.old" and "file", or between "file" and "file.new"; "total filename length" is good for choosing between "subdir/file" and "subdir.old/file". You still need a tiebreaker of last resort after all that. --apb (Alan Barrett)
