SFTP's handling of "." and ".."

[Philipp Marek]

Is this enough?


What about

   put -r ../  dest
   put -r ../. dest
   put -r ../.. dest

The first and second might come up from completion and/or a script; for the last (and similar) inputs we'd need more special-casing.

I guess this resolves to the question whether source path structures should be built in the destination (like -R for rsync says) or not.



   put -r ../../foo/.. dest


With foo being a symlink the intention might not be clear (which containing directory, of the symlink or its target?)