Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] macOS: ls-files path fails if path of workdir is NFD

> tboegi@web.de writes:
>
> > Add a missing call to precompose_string_if_needed() to this code
> > in setup.c :
> > `work_tree = precompose_string_if_needed(get_git_work_tree());`
>
> This is new in this iteration, I presume?  The old one did the
> precompose only in strbuf_getcwd().  We now precompose also the
> result of get_git_work_tree().
>
> Two questions.
>
>  * It is unclear to me why this makes a difference only when the
>    precompuse configuration is set only in the local configuration.
>
>  * As the leading part of the value placed in get_git_work_tree()
>    comes from strbuf_getcwd() called by abspath.c:real_pathdup()
>    that is called by repository.c:repo_set_worktree(), doesn't this
>    potentially call precompse twice on the already precomposed early
>    parth of the get_git_work_tree() result?
>
> I suspect that with the arrangement in your test, the argument given
> to set_git_work_tree() from setup.c:setup_discovered_git_dir() is
> always ".", and that dot is passed to repository.c:repo_set_worktree()
> which calls abspath.c:real_pathdup() to turn it into an absolute,
> where it has a call to strbuf_getcwd().
>
> So with the provided test, I suspect there is no difference between
> the previous and this iteration in behaviour, as what is fed to
> precompose should be identical?
>
> What this iteration does differently is that inside real_pathdup(),
> if the string given to repo_set_worktree() is more than the trivial
> ".", it is appended to the result of strbuf_getcwd(), and the new
> code precomposes after such appending in real_pathdup() happens.  It
> will convert the leading part twice [*] and more importantly the
> appended part is now converted, unlike the previous one?
>
> 	Side note: [*] hopefully precompose is idempotent?  Relying
> 	on that property somewhat feels yucky, though.
>
> Puzzled...
>
> Will replace and queue, but I couldn't figure out what is going on
> with the help by the proposed log message, so...