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Readme.adoc

@@ -2250,7 +2250,7 @@ string, int or set representations of the `os.PermSet` via:
 [#main]
 === main
 
-* Make `os.pwd` modifiable via the `os.dynamicPwd0`
+* Allow multi-segment paths segments for literals https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/os-lib/pull/297
 
 [#0-10-6]
 === 0.10.6

os/src/Path.scala

@@ -171,34 +171,31 @@ object BasePath {
   def checkSegment(s: String) = {
     def fail(msg: String) = throw PathError.InvalidSegment(s, msg)
     def considerStr =
-      "use the Path(...) or RelPath(...) constructor calls to convert them. "
+      "If you are dealing with dynamic path-strings coming from external sources, " +
+      "use the Path(...)/RelPath(...)/SubPath(...) constructor calls to convert them."
 
     s.indexOf('/') match {
       case -1 => // do nothing
       case c => fail(
-          s"[/] is not a valid character to appear in a path segment. " +
-            "If you want to parse an absolute or relative path that may have " +
-            "multiple segments, e.g. path-strings coming from external sources " +
+          s"[/] is not a valid character to appear in a non-literal path segment. " +
             considerStr
         )
 
     }
-    def externalStr = "If you are dealing with path-strings coming from external sources, "
     s match {
       case "" =>
         fail(
-          "OS-Lib does not allow empty path segments " +
-            externalStr + considerStr
+          "OS-Lib does not allow empty path segments. " +
+            considerStr
         )
       case "." =>
         fail(
-          "OS-Lib does not allow [.] as a path segment " +
-            externalStr + considerStr
+          "OS-Lib does not allow [.] in a non-literal path segment. " +
+            considerStr
         )
       case ".." =>
         fail(
-          "OS-Lib does not allow [..] as a path segment " +
-            externalStr +
+          "OS-Lib does not allow [..] in a non-literal path segment. " +
             considerStr +
             "If you want to use the `..` segment manually to represent going up " +
             "one level in the path, use the `up` segment from `os.up` " +

os/test/src/PathTests.scala

@@ -338,7 +338,13 @@ object PathTests extends TestSuite {
 
         val PathError.InvalidSegment("Main/.scala", msg1) = ex
 
-        assert(msg1.contains("[/] is not a valid character to appear in a path segment"))
+        assert(
+          msg1.contains(
+            "[/] is not a valid character to appear in a non-literal path segment. If you are "+
+            "dealing with dynamic path-strings coming from external sources, use the "+
+            "Path(...)/RelPath(...)/SubPath(...) constructor calls to convert them."
+          )
+        )
 
         val ex2 = intercept[PathError.InvalidSegment](root / "hello" / nonLiteral("..") / "world")