On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 06:30:33PM +0800, Paul Tan wrote: > The ordering of the list of suffixes tested in enter_repo() is > documented as "%s.git/.git", "%s/.git", "%s.git", "%s". This does not > match the ordering of the list of suffixes tested in the code which is > "%s/.git", "%s", "%s.git/.git", "%s.git". Fix this. Yes, this was adjusted in b3256eb (standardize and improve lookup rules for external local repos, 2012-02-02), but I failed to update the comment. Your patch is certainly an improvement, but I think there are more inaccuracies in the comment caused by that commit. Maybe squash this on top: diff --git a/path.c b/path.c index 56f50bd..586f2c9 100644 --- a/path.c +++ b/path.c @@ -383,14 +383,9 @@ return_null: * (3) "relative/path" to mean cwd relative directory; or * (4) "/absolute/path" to mean absolute directory. * - * Unless "strict" is given, we try access() for existence of "%s/.git", - * "%s", "%s.git/.git", "%s.git" in this order. The first one that exists is - * what we try. - * - * Second, we try chdir() to that. Upon failure, we return NULL. - * - * Then, we try if the current directory is a valid git repository. - * Upon failure, we return NULL. + * Unless "strict" is given, we check "%s/.git", "%s", "%s.git/.git", "%s.git" + * in this order. We select the first one that is a valid git repository, and + * chdir() to it. If none match, or we fail to chdir, we return NULL. * * If all goes well, we return the directory we used to chdir() (but * before ~user is expanded), avoiding getcwd() resolving symbolic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html