On 12/21, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> When an absolute path is resolved, resolution begins at the first path
> component after the root part. The root part is just copied verbatim,
> because it must not be inspected for symbolic links. For POSIX paths,
> this is just the initial slash, but on Windows, the root part has the
> forms c:\ or \\server\share. We do want to canonicalize the back-slashes
> in the root part because these parts are compared to the result of
> getcwd(), which does return a fully canonicalized path.
>
> Factor out a helper that splits off the root part, and have it
> canonicalize the copied part.
>
> This change was prompted because t1504-ceiling-dirs.sh caught a breakage
> in GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES handling on Windows.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This introduces the second #ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE in this file.
> It could be avoided if convert_slashes were defined as a do-nothing
> on POSIX, but that would not help the other occurrence. Therefore,
> I suggest to leave it at this.
>
> abspath.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
> index 79ee310867..1d56f5ed9f 100644
> --- a/abspath.c
> +++ b/abspath.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ static void get_next_component(struct strbuf *next, struct strbuf *remaining)
> strbuf_remove(remaining, 0, end - remaining->buf);
> }
>
> +/* copies root part from remaining to resolved, canonicalizing it on the way */
> +static void get_root_part(struct strbuf *resolved, struct strbuf *remaining)
> +{
> + int offset = offset_1st_component(remaining->buf);
> +
> + strbuf_reset(resolved);
> + strbuf_add(resolved, remaining->buf, offset);
> +#ifdef GIT_WINDOWS_NATIVE
> + convert_slashes(resolved->buf);
> +#endif
So then the only extra cononicalization that is happening here is
converting '\\server\share' to '//server/share'? (or 'c:\' to 'c:/')
--
Brandon Williams