From: Aaron Schrab Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:08:45 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: Allow repo using gitfile as a reference Message-ID: <20130408000845.GH27178@pug.qqx.org> In-Reply-To: <20130407235112.GH19857@elie.Belkin> At 16:51 -0700 07 Apr 2013, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> - char *ref_git; >> + char *ref_git, *repo; >[...] >> + repo = (char *)read_gitfile(mkpath("%s/.git", ref_git)); > >Why not make repo a "const char *" and avoid the cast? The above >would seem to make it too tempting to treat the return value from >read_gitfile() as a mutable buffer instead of a real_path string that >should be copied asap. Good catch. I'll fix that in the next version. Thanks.