Re: [PATCH] worktree: update is_bare heuristics

>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:30:00AM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote:
>
> > > >         strbuf_add_absolute_path(&worktree_path, get_git_common_dir());
> > > > -       is_bare = !strbuf_strip_suffix(&worktree_path, "/.git");
> > > > -       if (is_bare)
> > > > +       if (!strbuf_strip_suffix(&worktree_path, "/.git"))
> > > >                 strbuf_strip_suffix(&worktree_path, "/.");
> > >
> > > We can just call these two calls unconditionally, right? No harm done
> > > if we don't strip.
> >
> > We can, and no harm done. But this if/then pattern is also repeated in
> > other parts of the file (e.g. get_linked_worktree()) so I'll leave it in
> > for consistency. (Also, for what it's worth, it's slightly faster if
> > only one strip is done.)
>
> I also think your version expresses the intent more clearly. We expect
> to see one or the other, but not "foo/./.git". And so (just as the code
> prior to your patch) we would not convert that to "foo".
>
> I am not sure of exactly what the "/." is trying to accomplish, so maybe
> that double-strip _would_ be desirable, but if so it is definitely
> worthy of its own commit explaining why that is so.
>
> Interestingly, the case in get_linked_worktree() makes a lot more sense
> because it has added "." as an absolute path itself, and is just
> cleaning up the results of its strbuf_add_absolute_path()[1]. Which
> makes me wonder if the "/." stripping in get_main_worktree() is actually
> cargo-culted and simply unnecessary.