Versioning configuration files on a server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file or directory

[Ilyas -- <umask00@gmail.com>]

Hi!

The patch bellow for problem 'Versioning configuration files on a
server: fatal: Unable to create '//etc/.git/index.lock': No such file
or directory' works fine on FreeBSD/Linux.
Please fix this problem in upstream.

Thank you.


diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index d1e5e5e..5408db9 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -943,6 +943,7 @@ int file_exists(const char *f)


 char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size, const char *dir)

 {
        char *cwd = buffer;
+       size_t len, root_len;

        if (!dir)
                return NULL;
@@ -952,6 +953,15 @@ char *get_relative_cwd(char *buffer, int size,
const char *dir)

        if (!is_absolute_path(dir))


                dir = make_absolute_path(dir);

+       len = strlen(dir);
+       root_len = offset_1st_component(dir);
+
+       if (root_len >= len) {

+           /* dir is the filesystem root, so the cwd is always inside */


+           root_len = offset_1st_component(cwd);
+           return cwd + root_len;
+       }
+
        while (*dir && *dir == *cwd) {

                dir++;
                cwd++;