Re: [PATCH 1/4] config --show-origin: report paths with forward slashes

> Although I am convinced that the change is not necessary for
> correctness, I can buy the justification that we should produce forward
> slashes for consistency. There are a number of occasions where we
> present paths to the user, and we do show forward-slashes in all cases
> that I found. We should keep the commit.
>
> But then let's do this:

>
> ---- 8< ----
> Subject: [PATCH] Windows: shorten code by re-using convert_slashes()
>
> Make a few more spots more readable by using the recently introduced,
> Windows-specific helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> ---
>  abspath.c      | 5 +----
>  compat/mingw.c | 9 ++-------
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
> index 5edb4e7..2825de8 100644
> --- a/abspath.c
> +++ b/abspath.c
> @@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ const char *prefix_filename(const char *pfx, int pfx_len, const char *arg)
>  	strbuf_add(&path, pfx, pfx_len);
>  	strbuf_addstr(&path, arg);
>  #else
> -	char *p;
>  	/* don't add prefix to absolute paths, but still replace '\' by '/' */
>  	strbuf_reset(&path);
>  	if (is_absolute_path(arg))
> @@ -175,9 +174,7 @@ const char *prefix_filename(const char *pfx, int pfx_len, const char *arg)
>  	else if (pfx_len)
>  		strbuf_add(&path, pfx, pfx_len);
>  	strbuf_addstr(&path, arg);
> -	for (p = path.buf + pfx_len; *p; p++)
> -		if (*p == '\\')
> -			*p = '/';
> +	convert_slashes(path.buf + pfx_len);
>  #endif
>  	return path.buf;
>  }
> diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
> index 54c82ec..0413d5c 100644
> --- a/compat/mingw.c
> +++ b/compat/mingw.c
> @@ -763,15 +763,12 @@ struct tm *localtime_r(const time_t *timep, struct tm *result)
>  
>  char *mingw_getcwd(char *pointer, int len)
>  {
> -	int i;
>  	wchar_t wpointer[MAX_PATH];
>  	if (!_wgetcwd(wpointer, ARRAY_SIZE(wpointer)))
>  		return NULL;
>  	if (xwcstoutf(pointer, wpointer, len) < 0)
>  		return NULL;
> -	for (i = 0; pointer[i]; i++)
> -		if (pointer[i] == '\\')
> -			pointer[i] = '/';
> +	convert_slashes(pointer);
>  	return pointer;
>  }
>  
> @@ -2112,9 +2109,7 @@ static void setup_windows_environment()
>  		 * executable (by not mistaking the dir separators
>  		 * for escape characters).
>  		 */
> -		for (; *tmp; tmp++)
> -			if (*tmp == '\\')
> -				*tmp = '/';
> +		convert_slashes(tmp);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* simulate TERM to enable auto-color (see color.c) */