[PATCH] dir: avoid -Wdiscarded-qualifiers in remove_path()

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2026, 03:23 UTC
Message-ID: <3ad40c3d0762c2e8c14792dfb68cba9f63a883a3.1773026586.git.collin.funk1@gmail.com>

When building with glibc-2.43 there is the following warning:

    dir.c:3526:15: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
     3526 |         slash = strrchr(name, '/');
          |               ^

In this case we use a non-const pointer to get the last slash of the unwritable file name, and then use it again to write in the strdup'd file name.

We can avoid this warning and make the code a bit more clear by using a separate variable to access the original argument and it's strdup'd copy.

Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
---
 dir.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 026d8516a9..fcb8f6dd2a 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -3518,15 +3518,15 @@ int get_sparse_checkout_patterns(struct pattern_list *pl)
 
 int remove_path(const char *name)
 {
-	char *slash;
+	const char *last;
 
 	if (unlink(name) && !is_missing_file_error(errno))
 		return -1;
 
-	slash = strrchr(name, '/');
-	if (slash) {
+	last = strrchr(name, '/');
+	if (last) {
 		char *dirs = xstrdup(name);
-		slash = dirs + (slash - name);
+		char *slash = dirs + (last - name);
 		do {
 			*slash = '\0';
 			if (startup_info->original_cwd &&

-- 
2.53.0