Currently, the offset parameter (indicating what part of the cwd parameter corresponds to the current directory after discovering the .git/ directory) is set to 0 when we are running in the root directory. However, in the next patches we will avoid changing the current working directory while searching for the .git/ directory, meaning that the offset corresponding to the root directory will have to be 1 to reflect that this directory is characterized by the path "/" (and not ""). So let's make sure that setup_discovered_git_directory() only tries to append the trailing slash to non-root directories. Note: the setup_bare_git_directory() does not need a corresponding change, as it does not want to return a prefix. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- setup.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c index 4a15b105676..20a1f0f870e 100644 --- a/setup.c +++ b/setup.c @@ -721,8 +721,10 @@ static const char *setup_discovered_git_dir(const char *gitdir, if (offset == cwd->len) return NULL; - /* Make "offset" point to past the '/', and add a '/' at the end */ - offset++; + /* Make "offset" point past the '/' (already the case for root dirs) */ + if (offset != offset_1st_component(cwd->buf)) + offset++; + /* Add a '/' at the end */ strbuf_addch(cwd, '/'); return cwd->buf + offset; } -- 2.12.0.windows.1.7.g94dafc3b124