Re: [Gitclipse-devel] Changing Working Directory in Java

[<pm...@ny...>]

But if you fork a process with a process builder, it can run in a separate directory, and if that process is say git-status, then the paths it returns will not be correct if addressed relative to the parent process. 

And from gitclipse, relative paths are always relative to the 'project root', yet I don't believe it is guaranteed that the 'user.dir' will be the same, as it will be the 'workspace'.

(I will test this out over the weekend)

-PB


------Original Message------
From: James Linder
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To: javagit-devel
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Sent: Aug 1, 2008 11:25 PM
Subject: [Gitclipse-devel] Changing Working Directory in Java

Hi All,

I found some insightful threads about how java handles changing the
working directory of a Java program.  They are:

  http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=665110&messageID=3894504
  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4045688

In short, there is no way to change the working directory of a running
Java program.

So, this means that there is almost no reason for JavaGit to be using
File.getAbsolutePath() in any of its code because the "user.dir"
system almost never be the correct location to resolve a relative
reference against.  Thus, File.getPath() is sufficient for all places
where we get the path from a File instance.

Cheers,

James

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