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[PATCH] Support working directory located at root

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2010, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID
<1265640810-6361-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Git should work regardless where the working directory is located, even at root. This patch fixes two places where it assumes working directory always have parent directory.

In setup_git_directory_gently(), when Git goes up to root and finds .git there, it happily sets worktree to "".

In prefix_path(), loosen the outside repo check a little bit. Usually when a path XXX is inside worktree /foo, it must be either "/foo", or "/foo/...". When worktree is simply "/", we can safely ignore the check: we have a slash at the beginning already.

Not related to worktree, but also set gitdir correctly if a bare repo is placed (insanely?) at root.

Thanks João Carlos Mendes Luís for pointing out this problem.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 Tell me if this patch is rejected, I'll send another one that makes
 setup_git_* die() if worktree/gitdir is to be set empty. I don't think we
 expect gitdir or worktree to be empty anywhere.
 setup.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index b38cbee..0fcd2fd 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
 		len = strlen(work_tree);
 		total = strlen(sanitized) + 1;
 		if (strncmp(sanitized, work_tree, len) ||
-		    (sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
+		    (len > 1 && sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
 		error_out:
 			die("'%s' is outside repository", orig);
 		}
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 			if (!work_tree_env)
 				inside_work_tree = 0;
 			if (offset != len) {
-				cwd[offset] = '\0';
+				cwd[offset ? offset : 1] = '\0';
 				set_git_dir(cwd);
 			} else
 				set_git_dir(".");
@@ -427,6 +427,8 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 	inside_git_dir = 0;
 	if (!work_tree_env)
 		inside_work_tree = 1;
+	if (offset == 0) /* reached root, set worktree to '/' */
+		offset = 1;
 	git_work_tree_cfg = xstrndup(cwd, offset);
 	if (check_repository_format_gently(nongit_ok))
 		return NULL;
-- 
1.7.0.rc0.54.gd33ef
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  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2010
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 9, 2010
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