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Re: [PATCH] Handle UNC paths everywhere

From
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date
Jan 25, 2010, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID
<201001252107.45745.j6t@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To
<201001250155.47664.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
On Montag, 25. Januar 2010, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> In Windows paths beginning with // are knows as UNC paths. They are
> absolute paths, usually referring to a shared resource on a server.
>
> Examples of legal UNC paths
>
> 	\\hub\repos\repo
> 	\\?\unc\hub\repos
> 	\\?\d:\repo
I agree that that the problem that you are addressing needs a solution.

However, the solution is not a whole-sale replacement of have_dos_drive_prefix() by a function that is only a tiny bit fancier. Accompanying changes are needed, and perhaps more code locations need change.

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> @@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ int safe_create_leading_directories_const(const char
> *path);
>  char *enter_repo(char *path, int strict);
>  static inline int is_absolute_path(const char *path)
>  {
> -	return path[0] == '/' || has_dos_drive_prefix(path);
> +	return path[0] == '/' || has_win32_abs_prefix(path);

Perhaps we need is_dir_sep(path[0]) here? But since I have not observed any breakage in connection with this code, I think that all callers feed only normalized paths (i.e. with forward slash). (Note that our getcwd() implementation converts backslashes to forward slashes.) This means that a full-fledged check is not needed.

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> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ char *gitbasename (char *path)
>  {
>  	const char *base;
>  	/* Skip over the disk name in MSDOS pathnames. */
> -	if (has_dos_drive_prefix(path))
> +	if (has_win32_abs_prefix(path))
>  		path += 2;

This change is unnecessary; it really is only to skip an initial driver prefix. If you want to support \\?\X: style paths, more work is needed here so that you do not return X: or ? as the basename.

> +#define has_win32_abs_prefix(path) \
Do we really have to name everything "win32" when it is about Windows?
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> @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char
> *url_orig,
>  		end = host;
>
>  	path = strchr(end, c);
> -	if (path && !has_dos_drive_prefix(end)) {
> +	if (path && !has_win32_abs_prefix(end)) {

This change is wrong because the check is really only about the drive prefix: It checks that we do not mistake c:/foo as a ssh connection to host c, path /foo. Yes, it does mean that on Windows we cannot have remotes to hosts whose name consists only of a single letter using the rcp notation (you must say ssh://c/foo if you mean it).

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> @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ int normalize_path_copy(char *dst, const char *src)
>  {
>  	char *dst0;
>
> -	if (has_dos_drive_prefix(src)) {
> +	if (has_win32_abs_prefix(src)) {
>  		*dst++ = *src++;
>  		*dst++ = *src++;
>  	}
Is skipping just two characters for \\ or \\?\whatever paths the right thing?
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> @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
>  		die_errno("Unable to read current working directory");
>
>  	ceil_offset = longest_ancestor_length(cwd, env_ceiling_dirs);
> -	if (ceil_offset < 0 && has_dos_drive_prefix(cwd))
> +	if (ceil_offset < 0 && has_win32_abs_prefix(cwd))
>  		ceil_offset = 1;

I doubt that this is correct. The purpose of this check is that "c:/" is the last directory that is checked (on Unix it would be "/") when path components are stripped from cwd. For UNC paths this must be adjusted depending on how you want to support \\server\share and \\?\c:\paths: You do not want to check whether \\server\.git or \\.git or \\?\.git are git directories.

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> --- a/transport.c
> +++ b/transport.c
> @@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ static int is_local(const char *url)
>  	const char *colon = strchr(url, ':');
>  	const char *slash = strchr(url, '/');
>  	return !colon || (slash && slash < colon) ||
> -		has_dos_drive_prefix(url);
> +		has_win32_abs_prefix(url);

This check is again to not mistake c:/foo as rcp style connection. No change needed.

As I said, changes to other parts are perhaps also needed, most prominently, make_relative_path() that prompted this patch. What about make_absolute_path() and make_non_relative_path()?

-- Hannes
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  1. Handle UNC paths everywhereRobin Rosenberg, Jan 25, 2010
  2. Sverre RabbelierJan 25, 2010
  3. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  4. Erik Faye-LundJan 25, 2010
  5. Sverre RabbelierJan 25, 2010
  6. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  7. Sverre RabbelierJan 25, 2010
  8. Erik Faye-LundJan 25, 2010
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2010
  10. Erik Faye-LundJan 25, 2010
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 25, 2010
  12. Erik Faye-LundJan 25, 2010
  13. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  14. Erik Faye-LundJan 25, 2010
  15. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  16. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  17. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2010
  18. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010
  19. Johannes SchindelinJan 26, 2010
  20. Johannes SixtJan 25, 2010
  21. Robin RosenbergJan 25, 2010

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