Re: [PATCH] Make Git accept absolute path names for files within the work tree

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:52:15PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> IOW, that whole thing is simply a bug waiting to happen. The fact that it 
> apparently *always* runs whether needed or not just seems to make it worse 
> (ie if we already know our cwd, and the absolute path we have already has 
> that as a prefix, just strip it off, don't try to do anything complex, and 
> leave the complex and fragile cases for the odd-ball when the simple 
> approach doesn't work)

Fair enough. Something like this then? It gets called only as a
last-ditch (though I think the 'return path' should simply be a die
-- what is the point of getting a pathspec that isn't in the repo?).

---
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 4ee8024..fbb956e 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ static int inside_git_dir = -1;
 static int inside_work_tree = -1;
 
 static
-const char *strip_work_tree_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
+const char *strip_work_tree_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path,
+		int canonicalized)
 {
 	const char *work_tree = get_git_work_tree();
 	int n = strlen(work_tree);
 
 	if (strncmp(path, work_tree, n))
-		return path;
+		return canonicalized ?
+			path :
+			strip_work_tree_path(prefix, len,
+					xstrdup(make_absolute_path(path)), 1);
 
 	if (!prefix && !path[n])
 		return path + n;
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ const char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len, const char *path)
 {
 	const char *orig = path;
 	if (is_absolute_path(path))
-		path = strip_work_tree_path(prefix, len, path);
+		path = strip_work_tree_path(prefix, len, path, 0);
 
 	for (;;) {
 		char c;