[augeas-devel] Simplify handling of path expressions

David Lutterkort lutter at redhat.com
Wed Dec 24 01:24:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:46 -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> This series of patches considerably simplifies the evaluation of path
> expressions and searching/iterating in the tree. The two big changes are that
> 
> (1) tree nodes now have an explicit 'parent' pointer
> 
> (2) root nodes of a tree now point back to a fake parent (called 'origin'),
>     i.e. the tree is now edge-labeled
> 
> These patches clean up a good deal of ugliness in handling path
> expressions. In particular, the paths that are generated when a tree is
> printed are now much more correct ;)

I just committed this patch series.

David





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