RelativePath

Represents a relative file system path. A relative path never starts with a / character, and holds a normalized string representation. As with AbsolutePath, the normalization is strictly syntactic, and does not access the file system in any way.

RelativePath.swift:33
struct RelativePath

The relative path string is normalized by:

  • Collapsing .. path components that aren’t at the beginning

  • Removing extraneous . path components

  • Removing any trailing path separator

  • Removing any redundant path separators

  • Replacing a completely empty path with a .

This string manipulation may change the meaning of a path if any of the path components are symbolic links on disk. However, the file system is never accessed in any way when initializing a RelativePath.