Re: Unix root dir as a work tree

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

2010/2/8 João Carlos Mendes Luís <jonny@jonny.eng.br>:
>  Now, I have a patch that appears to work, but since I am a beginner to git,
> I don't know if this is the best way to implement it, if it has any side
> effects, or even if it works for other operating systems (probably they
> don't even have the bug).  Would any git wizard care to look at it, check if
> it is ok, and maybe commit in HEAD or give me any advice against my patch?

Hmm.. I guess you put .git at root directory so you needed your patch.
I haven't tried it yet because I don't have root access here.

Anyway you may also need the below patch. Please report back if any
Git operation that does not work under your setup.

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 710e2f3..d31dcb8 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ const char *prefix_path(const char *prefix, int len,
const char *path)
 		len = strlen(work_tree);
 		total = strlen(sanitized) + 1;
 		if (strncmp(sanitized, work_tree, len) ||
-		    (sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
+		    (len > 1 && sanitized[len] != '\0' && sanitized[len] != '/')) {
 		error_out:
 			die("'%s' is outside repository", orig);
 		}

-- 
Duy