René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"TreeEntry#path should return a posix path","articleBody":"When I use `git ls-tree`, regardless of whether I'm on Linux, macOS, or Windows, it always reports posix paths (paths that use forward slash as the directory separator). This makes sense since git is a database of virtual paths which have nothing to do with the filesystem / platform I'm currently on. nodegit, on the other hand, returns platform-specific paths. In other words, on Windows, the TreeEntry#path returns a different value than on Linux. It's even stranger that I request an entry using a posix path, but I get back a platform-specific path.\r\n\r\nHere's a sample of what `git ls-tree -r HEAD` returns on Windows:\r\n\r\n```\r\n100644 blob 3fda23c7b550d75eae3d62e471dd35bbc3d6e667    guides/README.md\r\n100644 blob 7a44d0cf690215933974035542d5af6280294982    guides/cloning/README.md\r\n100644 blob 1a9190ab32758755dc1b964e157d2a44abc512d5    guides/cloning/gh-two-factor/README.md\r\n100644 blob d723e52ccf3569b4b25f25ee5d5f21b7a4138453    guides/cloning/gh-two-factor/index.js\r\n100644 blob f6b7c7a3700b1f29bb40b4a9df01795e3a46f106    guides/cloning/index.js\r\n```\r\n\r\nHere are the paths nodegit returns on Windows when walking the same tree:\r\n\r\n```\r\nguides\\README.md\r\nguides\\cloning\\README.md\r\nguides\\cloning\\gh-two-factor\\README.md\r\nguides\\cloning\\gh-two-factor\\index.js\r\nguides\\cloning\\index.js\r\n```\r\n\r\nThis problem can be easily resolved by using [path.posix](https://nodejs.org/api/path.html#path_path_posix) instead of path in tree_entry.js (and perhaps other places).\r\n\r\nIf the user really wants the Windows-variant of the path, they can easily get it by passing the value to `path.normalize`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mojavelinux","@type":"Person","name":"mojavelinux"},"datePublished":"2018-01-26T05:39:13.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/1433/nodegit/issues/1433"}