Emit relative path to output #8692
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It does help a lot over using absolute paths! This is a reasonable sized terminal window (~1100x600) and it was still legible for this small, 7ish project repo. |
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| // If the output path is under the initial working directory, make the console output relative to that to save space. | ||
| if (outputPathSpan.StartsWith(_initialWorkingDirectory.AsSpan(), FileUtilities.PathComparison) | ||
| && (outputPathSpan[_initialWorkingDirectory.Length] == Path.DirectorySeparatorChar |
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It's not possible for outputPathSpan to be the same as _initialWorkingDirectory to cause a crash here, is it?
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Hm. Not normally, but we can't control what projects might emit, so we should definitely guard against this.
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A top comment from the folks who've seen this is that the absolute paths take up a bunch of space and making them relative would be a UX nicety. This is the simplest possible approach for that: string prefix truncation with no path comparison anything.