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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] path-list: add functions to work with unsorted lists
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 	This is probably useful to a number of existing non-users of
> 	path_list.

I suspect most of the non-users will stay non-users, until the
thing is renamed to something more sensible.

The name gives a false impression that this is a special-purpose
data structure that is meant to handle pathnames very well
(e.g. canonicalizing "foo//../bar" to "bar" before doing
comparsion) but in reality it does not do anything like that,
and is a general purpose "table keyed with string" mechanism.

The wholesale renaming, if we were to do so, should happen when
things are quiet, and this is probably not a good time for it.