[Commented On] D11378: rhg-cat: fallback when detecting `.` or `..` path segments

[Alphare (Raphaël Gomès)]

Alphare added a comment.


  In D11378#174748 <https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11378#174748>, @SimonSapin wrote:
  
  > Is https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/fn.canonicalize.html the correct normalization needed here? (Note that it follows symlinks.) If it’s easy enough, it may be worth implementing the correct behavior instead of adding fallback.
  
  This wouldn't work since the normalization must be independent from the fs. You can have `hg cat -r 1 file_that_was_deleted_since_then`, we need to use `HgPath` type normalization.

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