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[PATCH 2/2] Kill off get_relative_cwd()

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 26, 2011, 09:04 UTC
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Function dir_inside_of() does something similar (correctly), but looks easier to understand and does not bundle cwd to its business. Given get_relative_cwd's only user is is_inside_dir, we can kill it for good.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 2011/3/25 Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>:
 > get_relative_cwd() tries to determine a common prefix for dir and
 > cwd.
 > The fix in
 > 490544b (get_cwd_relative(): do not misinterpret suffix as
 > subdirectory, 2010-05-22)
 > made the logic less naive (so that foo-bar is not misdetected as
 > being
 > within foo) but broke some other cases, in particular foo not being
 > detected as being within foo/ any more.
 >
 > Fix it by taking into a account that a directory name may or may
 > not end
 > in /.
 OK I stared at the code long enough and have come to the conclusion
 that your fix is essentially fbbb4e1 (get_cwd_relative(): do not
 misinterpret root path - 2010-11-20) but the structure is similar to
 my old is_subdir_or_same() (now dir_inside_of). So let's kill that
 cryptic switch.
 dir.c |   55 ++++++-------------------------------------------------
 dir.h |    1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 6c49a73..bd9e989 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -1105,53 +1105,6 @@ int file_exists(const char *f)
 }
 
 /*
- * get_relative_cwd() gets the prefix of the current working directory
- * relative to 'dir'.  If we are not inside 'dir', it returns NULL.
- *
- * As a convenience, it also returns NULL if 'dir' is already NULL.  The
- * reason for this behaviour is that it is natural for functions returning
- * directory names to return NULL to say "this directory does not exist"
- * or "this directory is invalid".  These cases are usually handled the
- * same as if the cwd is not inside 'dir' at all, so get_relative_cwd()
- * returns NULL for both of them.
- *
- * Most notably, get_relative_cwd(buffer, size, get_git_work_tree())
- * unifies the handling of "outside work tree" with "no work tree at all".
- */
-char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir)
-{
-	char *cwd = buffer;
-
-	if (!dir)
-		return NULL;
-	if (!getcwd(buffer, size))
-		die_errno("can't find the current directory");
-
-	if (!is_absolute_path(dir))
-		dir = real_path(dir);
-
-	while (*dir && *dir == *cwd) {
-		dir++;
-		cwd++;
-	}
-	if (*dir)
-		return NULL;
-	switch (*cwd) {
-	case '\0':
-		return cwd;
-	case '/':
-		return cwd + 1;
-	default:
-		/*
-		 * dir can end with a path separator when it's root
-		 * directory. Return proper prefix in that case.
-		 */
-		if (dir[-1] == '/')
-			return cwd;
-		return NULL;
-	}
-}
-
  * Given two normalized paths (a trailing slash is ok), if subdir is
  * outside dir, return -1.  Otherwise return the offset in subdir that
  * can be used as relative path to dir.
@@ -1185,8 +1138,12 @@ int dir_inside_of(const char *subdir, const char *dir)
 
 int is_inside_dir(const char *dir)
 {
-	char buffer[PATH_MAX];
-	return get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer), dir) != NULL;
+	char cwd[PATH_MAX];
+	if (!dir)
+		return 0;
+	if (!getcwd(cwd, sizeof(cwd)))
+		die_errno("can't find the current directory");
+	return dir_inside_of(cwd, dir) >= 0;
 }
 
 int is_empty_dir(const char *path)
diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
index 83e2992..433b5b4 100644
--- a/dir.h
+++ b/dir.h
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ extern void add_exclude(const char *string, const char *base,
 extern void free_excludes(struct exclude_list *el);
 extern int file_exists(const char *);
 
-extern char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir);
 extern int is_inside_dir(const char *dir);
 extern int dir_inside_of(const char *subdir, const char *dir);
 
-- 
1.7.4.74.g639db
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