In particular, it fixes the following (typical for cygwin) problem:
$ git-update-index --chmod=-x ../wrapper/Jamfile
fatal: git-update-index: cannot chmod -x '../wrapper/Jamfile'
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin-update-index.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
From e43acd17ccdd0b045a92fe1439554b310e3579c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:34:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix git-update-index to work with relative pathnames.
In particular, it fixes the following (typical for cygwin) problem:
$ git-update-index --chmod=-x ../wrapper/Jamfile
fatal: git-update-index: cannot chmod -x '../wrapper/Jamfile'
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin-update-index.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-update-index.c b/builtin-update-index.c
index 182331d..82364c1 100644
--- a/builtin-update-index.c
+++ b/builtin-update-index.c
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
for (i = 1 ; i < argc; i++) {
const char *path = argv[i];
+ char *p;
if (allow_options && *path == '-') {
if (!strcmp(path, "--")) {
@@ -616,9 +617,12 @@ int cmd_update_index(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
usage(update_index_usage);
die("unknown option %s", path);
}
- update_one(path, prefix, prefix_length);
+ p = prefix_path(prefix, prefix_length, path);
+ update_one(p, NULL, 0);
if (set_executable_bit)
- chmod_path(set_executable_bit, path);
+ chmod_path(set_executable_bit, p);
+ if (p < path || p > path + strlen(path))
+ free(p);
}
if (read_from_stdin) {
struct strbuf buf;
--
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