Hi,
On Wed, 7 Nov 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On 06/11/2018 14:53, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> >> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> >>
> >> On Windows, an absolute POSIX path needs to be turned into a Windows
> >> one.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> path.c | 5 +++++
> >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
> >> index 34f0f98349..a72abf0e1f 100644
> >> --- a/path.c
> >> +++ b/path.c
> >> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
> >> #include "path.h"
> >> #include "packfile.h"
> >> #include "object-store.h"
> >> +#include "exec-cmd.h"
> >>
> >> static int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode)
> >> {
> >> @@ -709,6 +710,10 @@ char *expand_user_path(const char *path, int real_home)
> >>
> >> if (path == NULL)
> >> goto return_null;
> >> +#ifdef __MINGW32__
> >> + if (path[0] == '/')
> >> + return system_path(path + 1);
> >> +#endif
> >
> > Hmm, this doesn't quite fit with the intended use of this
> > function! ;-) (even on windows!)
> >
> > I haven't looked very deeply, but doesn't this affect all
> > absolute paths in the config read by git_config_pathname(),
> > along with all 'included config' files?
>
> I think so. I have not thought things through to say if replacing a
> "full path in the current drive" with system_path() is a sensible
> thing to do in the first place, but I am getting the impression from
> review comments that it probably is not.
>
> > I am pretty sure that I would not want the absolute paths
> > in my config file(s) magically 'moved' depending on whether
> > git has been compiled with 'runtime prefix' support or not!
The cute thing is: your absolute paths would not be moved because we are
talking about Windows. Therefore your absolute paths would not start with
a forward slash.
> In any case, the helper is about expanding ~/foo and ~who/foo to
> absolute paths, without touching other paths, so it is a wrong
> function to implement it in, even if the motivation were sensible.
It could be renamed. In any case, for this feature we would need to expand
a path that is not the final path, and this here location is the most
logical place to do so.
Ciao,
Dscho
