From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:00:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: Allow repo using gitfile as a reference Message-ID: <7vehekykan.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130408000845.GH27178@pug.qqx.org> [ADMINISTRIVIA: please do not redirect a direct reply to you to other people using Mail-Followup-To.] Aaron Schrab writes: > 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. The patch otherwise looks good to me.