From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:43:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix set_work_tree on cygwin
Message-ID: <7vk5sdtxx0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708022230070.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> Static is supposed to be zeroed and also is supposed to retain
>> the value from the previous call.  I am guessing from the change
>> to make "rel" to non-static that this function is called twice
>> perhaps?
>
> Apparently (but I would feel safer with strlcpy() anyway)...

Yup, send an appliable "final" version, somebody please?

> ...  git-read-tree 
> is the first and only offender which comes up in the test suite:

It is unclear.

Is this an optimization, or enforcing the new world order?  IOW,
is it now banned to call setup twice?