I can create a dir called "../things" and it does hilarious things

[Pomax]

I accidentally clicked "new folder" inside one of my project folders, so for the heck of it I figured "let's call it ../extensions and see if that makes it one dir up". That's.... not what it did.

[humphd]

Filed upstream, this is a Brackets bug.

[Pomax]

it's a very cool bug =P

[humphd]

@Simon66 this is the bug I was talking about, along with associated bug filed in Brackets upstream.

[sdalmeida]

Thanks @humphd! Yea I was talking to @gideonthomas about this on Friday.

Mind if I tackle this bug?

Here's more on this bug:

By using relative path, I was able to "hop" between directories.
Create/rename a folder and name it ../../../test, if test folder already exist, just name it to something else.
As you can see, I can view all my local projects and make changes to them.

[Pomax]

Note that supposedly this is fixed in Brackets itself, so the fix here might be "uplift our version of brackets to 1.8"

[gideonthomas]

@Simon66 are you interested in testing that out? See if you can reproduce this in Brackets 1.4 and 1.8. If this bug is not in 1.8, we should just merge with 1.8 (or if this is urgent, cherry-pick their fix for this into our repo).

[sdalmeida]

Hi @gideonthomas
Bug still exists in Brackets 1.8

As you can see, one file is placed in the "Root" folder and the other in the "Contents" folder.

[Pomax]

Then step one is going to filing an issue over on the brackets repository to tell them this can be done, probably with a mention of adobe#11609 (which is where we originally filed it, and got closed by a PR that was intended to address this issue.