Re: [PATCH] shrink git-shell by avoiding redundant dependencies

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:55:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..4becedf
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/abspath.c
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
>> > +/*
>> > + * I'm tired of doing "vsnprintf()" etc just to open a
>> > + * file, so here's a "return static buffer with printf"
>> > + * interface for paths.
>> > + *
>> > + * It's obviously not thread-safe. Sue me. But it's quite
>> > + * useful for doing things like
>> > + *
>> > + *   f = open(mkpath("%s/%s.git", base, name), O_RDONLY);
>> > + *
>> > + * which is what it's designed for.
>> > + */
>> 
>> This is not a comment you would want to move to the resulting file that
>> contains only make_absolute_path().
>
> I am sorry... I removed this comment. Here is the corrected patch.

No need to say nor be sorry.  The rest looks sane from a quick glance,
except that we may want to have a separate clean-up patch that
consolidates MAXDEPTH in many places that limits our manual symlink
resolution.