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[PATCH v3 4/5] Support working directory located at root

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 14, 2010, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID
<1266162285-10955-4-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
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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 "" instead of "/".

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>
---
 setup.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index b38cbee..08df00e 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -18,14 +18,15 @@ const char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
 	if (normalize_path_copy(sanitized, sanitized))
 		goto error_out;
 	if (is_absolute_path(orig)) {
-		size_t len, total;
+		size_t root_len, len, total;
 		const char *work_tree = get_git_work_tree();
 		if (!work_tree)
 			goto error_out;
 		len = strlen(work_tree);
+		root_len = offset_1st_component(work_tree);
 		total = strlen(sanitized) + 1;
 		if (strncmp(sanitized, work_tree, len) ||
-		    (sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
+		    (len > root_len && sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
 		error_out:
 			die("'%s' is outside repository", orig);
 		}
@@ -321,7 +322,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 	static char cwd[PATH_MAX+1];
 	const char *gitdirenv;
 	const char *gitfile_dir;
-	int len, offset, ceil_offset;
+	int len, offset, ceil_offset, root_len;
 
 	/*
 	 * Let's assume that we are in a git repository.
@@ -403,7 +404,8 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 			if (!work_tree_env)
 				inside_work_tree = 0;
 			if (offset != len) {
-				cwd[offset] = '\0';
+				root_len = offset_1st_component(cwd);
+				cwd[offset > root_len ? offset : root_len] = '\0';
 				set_git_dir(cwd);
 			} else
 				set_git_dir(".");
@@ -427,7 +429,8 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 	inside_git_dir = 0;
 	if (!work_tree_env)
 		inside_work_tree = 1;
-	git_work_tree_cfg = xstrndup(cwd, offset);
+	root_len = offset_1st_component(cwd);
+	git_work_tree_cfg = xstrndup(cwd, offset > root_len ? offset : root_len);
 	if (check_repository_format_gently(nongit_ok))
 		return NULL;
 	if (offset == len)
-- 
1.7.0.195.g637a2
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  1. 1/5 make_absolute_path(): Do not append redundant slashNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2010
  2. 2/5 init-db, rev-parse --git-dir: do not append redundant slashNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2010
  3. 3/5 Move offset_1st_component() to path.cNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2010
  4. Johannes SixtFeb 15, 2010
  5. 3/5 Move offset_1st_component() to path.c=?UTF-8?q?Nguy=E1=BB=85n=20Th=C3=A1i=20Ng=E1=BB=8Dc=20Duy?=, Feb 16, 2010
  6. Johannes SixtFeb 16, 2010
  7. 4/5 Support working directory located at rootNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2010
  8. 5/5 Add test for using Git at root of file systemNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Feb 14, 2010

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