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2015-09-09am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into indexJohannes Schindelin1-1/+1
f8da6801 (am --skip: support skipping while on unborn branch, 2015-06-06) introduced a performance regression to "git am --skip", where it used "read-tree" to reconstruct the index from scratch without reusing the cached stat information. This is a backport of the corresponding patch to the builtin am in 2.6: 3ecc704 (am --skip/--abort: merge HEAD/ORIG_HEAD tree into index, 2015-08-19). Reportedly, it can make a huge difference on Windows, in one case a `git rebase --skip` took 1m40s without, and 5s with, this patch. cf. https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/365 Reported-and-suggested-by: Kim Gybels <kgybels@infogroep.be> Acked-by: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04Git 2.5.2v2.5.2Junio C Hamano4-3/+67
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04Git 2.4.9v2.4.9Junio C Hamano4-3/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04Git 2.3.9v2.3.9Junio C Hamano4-3/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04Git 2.2.3v2.2.3Junio C Hamano4-3/+13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04show-branch: use a strbuf for reflog descriptionsJeff King1-2/+4
When we show "branch@{0}", we format into a fixed-size buffer using sprintf. This can overflow if you have long branch names. We can fix it by using a temporary strbuf. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04read_info_alternates: handle paths larger than PATH_MAXJeff King1-6/+3
This function assumes that the relative_base path passed into it is no larger than PATH_MAX, and writes into a fixed-size buffer. However, this path may not have actually come from the filesystem; for example, add_submodule_odb generates a path using a strbuf and passes it in. This is hard to trigger in practice, though, because the long submodule directory would have to exist on disk before we would try to open its info/alternates file. We can easily avoid the bug, though, by simply creating the filename on the heap. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04notes: use a strbuf in add_non_noteJeff King1-9/+10
When we are loading a notes tree into our internal hash table, we also collect any files that are clearly non-notes. We format the name of the file into a PATH_MAX buffer, but unlike true notes (which cannot be larger than a fanned-out sha1 hash), these tree entries can be arbitrarily long, overflowing our buffer. We can fix this by switching to a strbuf. It doesn't even cost us an extra allocation, as we can simply hand ownership of the buffer over to the non-note struct. This is of moderate security interest, as you might fetch notes trees from an untrusted remote. However, we do not do so by default, so you would have to manually fetch into the notes namespace. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-04verify_absent: allow filenames longer than PATH_MAXJeff King1-7/+10
When unpack-trees wants to know whether a path will overwrite anything in the working tree, we use lstat() to see if there is anything there. But if we are going to write "foo/bar", we can't just lstat("foo/bar"); we need to look for leading prefixes (e.g., "foo"). So we use the lstat cache to find the length of the leading prefix, and copy the filename up to that length into a temporary buffer (since the original name is const, we cannot just stick a NUL in it). The copy we make goes into a PATH_MAX-sized buffer, which will overflow if the prefix is longer than PATH_MAX. How this happens is a little tricky, since in theory PATH_MAX is the biggest path we will have read from the filesystem. But this can happen if: - the compiled-in PATH_MAX does not accurately reflect what the filesystem is capable of - the leading prefix is not _quite_ what is on disk; it contains the next element from the name we are checking. So if we want to write "aaa/bbb/ccc/ddd" and "aaa/bbb" exists, the prefix of interest is "aaa/bbb/ccc". If "aaa/bbb" approaches PATH_MAX, then "ccc" can overflow it. So this can be triggered, but it's hard to do. In particular, you cannot just "git clone" a bogus repo. The verify_absent checks happen before unpack-trees writes anything to the filesystem, so there are never any leading prefixes during the initial checkout, and the bug doesn't trigger. And by definition, these files are larger than PATH_MAX, so writing them will fail, and clone will complain (though it may write a partial path, which will cause a subsequent "git checkout" to hit the bug). We can fix it by creating the temporary path on the heap. The extra malloc overhead is not important, as we are already making at least one stat() call (and probably more for the prefix discovery). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31trailer: support multiline titleChristian Couder2-4/+25
We currently ignore the first line passed to `git interpret-trailers`, when looking for the beginning of the trailers. Unfortunately this does not work well when a commit is created with a line break in the title, using for example the following command: git commit -m 'place of code: change we made' That's why instead of ignoring only the first line, it is better to ignore the first paragraph. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31t7300: fix broken && chainsErik Elfström1-12/+4
While we are here, remove some boilerplate by using test_commit. Signed-off-by: Erik Elfström <erik.elfstrom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31log: diagnose empty HEAD more clearlyJeff King2-1/+30
If you init or clone an empty repository, the initial message from running "git log" is not very friendly: $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/peff/foo/.git/ $ git log fatal: bad default revision 'HEAD' Let's detect this situation and write a more friendly message: $ git log fatal: your current branch 'master' does not have any commits yet We also detect the case that 'HEAD' points to a broken ref; this should be even less common, but is easy to see. Note that we do not diagnose all possible cases. We rely on resolve_ref, which means we do not get information about complex cases. E.g., "--default master" would use dwim_ref to find "refs/heads/master", but we notice only that "master" does not exist. Similarly, a complex sha1 expression like "--default HEAD^2" will not resolve as a ref. But that's OK. We fall back to a generic error message in those cases, and they are unlikely to be used anyway. Catching an empty or broken "HEAD" improves the common case, and the other cases are not regressed. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-31commit: don't rewrite shared index unnecessarilyDavid Turner3-5/+15
Remove a cache invalidation which would cause the shared index to be rewritten on as-is commits. When the cache-tree has changed, we need to update it. But we don't necessarily need to update the shared index. So setting active_cache_changed to SOMETHING_CHANGED is unnecessary. Instead, we let update_main_cache_tree just update the CACHE_TREE_CHANGED bit. In order to test this, make test-dump-split-index not segfault on missing replace_bitmap/delete_bitmap. This new codepath is not called now that the test passes, but is necessary to avoid a segfault when the new test is run with the old builtin/commit.c code. Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Acked-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28git-submodule: remove extraneous space from error messageAlex Henrie1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com> Acked-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28Git 2.5.1v2.5.1Junio C Hamano3-2/+19
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28Mingw: verify both ends of the pipe () callJose F. Morales1-1/+1
The code to open and test the second end of the pipe clearly imitates the code for the first end. A little too closely, though... Let's fix the obvious copy-edit bug. Signed-off-by: Jose F. Morales <jfmcjf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28archive-zip: support more than 65535 entriesRené Scharfe2-4/+91
Support more than 65535 entries cleanly by writing a "zip64 end of central directory record" (with a 64-bit field for the number of entries) before the usual "end of central directory record" (which contains only a 16-bit field). InfoZIP's zip does the same. Archives with 65535 or less entries are not affected. Programs that extract all files like InfoZIP's zip and 7-Zip ignored the field and could extract all files already. Software that relies on the ZIP file directory to show a list of contained files quickly to simulate to normal directory like Windows' built-in ZIP functionality only saw a subset of the included files. Windows supports ZIP64 since Vista according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_%28file_format%29#ZIP64. Suggested-by: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28archive-zip: use a local variable to store the creator versionRené Scharfe1-2/+4
Use a simpler conditional right next to the code which makes a higher creator version necessary -- namely symlink handling and support for executable files -- instead of a long line with a ternary operator. The resulting code has more lines but is simpler and allows reuse of the value easily. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-28t5004: test ZIP archives with many entriesRené Scharfe1-0/+40
A ZIP file directory has a 16-bit field for the number of entries it contains. There are 64-bit extensions to deal with that. Demonstrate that git archive --format=zip currently doesn't use them and instead overflows the field. InfoZIP's unzip doesn't care about this field and extracts all files anyway. Software that uses the directory for presenting a filesystem like view quickly -- notably Windows -- depends on it, but doesn't lend itself to an automatic test case easily. Use InfoZIP's zipinfo, which probably isn't available everywhere but at least can provides *some* way to check this field. To speed things up a bit create and commit only a subset of the files and build a fake tree out of duplicates and pass that to git archive. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-26trailer: retitle a test and correct an in-comment messageChristian Couder2-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-26git-svn doc: mention "svn-remote.<name>.include-paths"Brett Randall1-0/+3
Mention the configuration variable in a way similar to how "svn-remote.<name>.ignore-paths" is mentioned. Signed-off-by: Brett Randall <javabrett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-26pull: pass upload_pack only when it was givenJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
The upload_pack shell variable is initialized to an empty string, so conditional expansion with ${upload_pack+"$upload_pack"} would not work very well. You need a colon there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-25generate-cmdlist: re-implement as shell scriptEric Sunshine3-52/+52
527ec39 (generate-cmdlist: parse common group commands, 2015-05-21) replaced generate-cmdlist.sh with a more functional Perl version, generate-cmdlist.perl. The Perl version gleans named tags from a new "common groups" section in command-list.txt and recognizes those tags in "command list" section entries in place of the old 'common' tag. This allows git-help to, not only recognize, but also group common commands. Although the tests require Perl, 527ec39 creates an unconditional dependence upon Perl in the build system itself, which can not be overridden with NO_PERL. Such a dependency may be undesirable; for instance, the 'git-lite' package in the FreeBSD ports tree is intended as a minimal Git installation (which may, for example, be useful on servers needing only local clone and update capability), which, historically, has not depended upon Perl[1]. Therefore, revive generate-cmdlist.sh and extend it to recognize "common groups" and its named tags. Retire generate-cmdlist.perl. [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275905/focus=276132 Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-25setup: update the right file in multiple checkoutsNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+2
This code is introduced in 23af91d (prune: strategies for linked checkouts - 2014-11-30), and it's supposed to implement this rule from that commit's message: - linked checkouts are supposed to keep its location in $R/gitdir up to date. The use case is auto fixup after a manual checkout move. Note the name, "$R/gitdir", not "$R/gitfile". Correct the path to be updated accordingly. While at there, make sure I/O errors are not silently dropped. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-24rev-list: make it obvious that we do not support notesJeff King4-0/+9
The rev-list command does not have the internal infrastructure to display notes. Running: git rev-list --notes HEAD will silently ignore the "--notes" option. Running: git rev-list --notes --grep=. HEAD will crash on an assert. Running: git rev-list --format=%N HEAD will place a literal "%N" in the output (it does not even expand to an empty string). Let's have rev-list tell the user that it cannot fill the user's request, rather than silently producing wrong data. Likewise, let's remove mention of the notes options from the rev-list documentation. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-24config: silence warnings for command names with invalid keysJeff King5-12/+43
When we are running the git command "foo", we may have to look up the config keys "pager.foo" and "alias.foo". These config schemes are mis-designed, as the command names can be anything, but the config syntax has some restrictions. For example: $ git foo_bar error: invalid key: pager.foo_bar error: invalid key: alias.foo_bar git: 'foo_bar' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. You cannot name an alias with an underscore. And if you have an external command with one, you cannot configure its pager. In the long run, we may develop a different config scheme for these features. But in the near term (and because we'll need to support the existing scheme indefinitely), we should at least squelch the error messages shown above. These errors come from git_config_parse_key. Ideally we would pass a "quiet" flag to the config machinery, but there are many layers between the pager code and the key parsing. Passing a flag through all of those would be an invasive change. Instead, let's provide a config function to report on whether a key is syntactically valid, and have the pager and alias code skip lookup for bogus keys. We can build this easily around the existing git_config_parse_key, with two minor modifications: 1. We now handle a NULL store_key, to validate but not write out the normalized key. 2. We accept a "quiet" flag to avoid writing to stderr. This doesn't need to be a full-blown public "flags" field, because we can make the existing implementation a static helper function, keeping the mess contained inside config.c. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-21wt-status: move #include "pathspec.h" to the headerSZEDER Gábor2-1/+1
The declaration of 'struct wt_status' requires the declararion of 'struct pathspec'. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-21trailer: ignore first line of messageChristian Couder2-2/+16
When looking for the start of the trailers in the message we are passed, we should ignore the first line of the message. The reason is that if we are passed a patch or commit message then the first line should be the patch title. If we are passed only trailers we can expect that they start with an empty line that can be ignored too. This way we can properly process commit messages that have only one line with something that looks like a trailer, for example like "area of code: change we made". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-21Documentation/config: fix inconsistent label on gc.*.reflogExpireUnreachableAndreas Schwab1-1/+1
Change <ref> to <pattern> in the description of gc.*.reflogExpireUnreachable, since that is what the text refers to. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-20t3020: fix typo in test descriptionSZEDER Gábor1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-20ps_matched: xcalloc() takes nmemb and then element sizeJunio C Hamano2-2/+2
Even though multiplication is commutative, the order of arguments should be xcalloc(nmemb, size). ps_matched is an array of 1-byte element whose size is the same as the number of pathspec elements. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19Start preparing for 2.5.1Junio C Hamano2-1/+50
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19untracked cache: fix entry invalidationNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy2-13/+83
First, the current code in untracked_cache_invalidate_path() is wrong because it can only handle paths "a" or "a/b", not "a/b/c" because lookup_untracked() only looks for entries directly under the given directory. In the last case, it will look for the entry "b/c" in directory "a" instead. This means if you delete or add an entry in a subdirectory, untracked cache may become out of date because it does not invalidate properly. This is noticed by David Turner. The second problem is about invalidation inside a fully untracked/excluded directory. In this case we may have to invalidate back to root. See the comment block for detail. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19untracked-cache: fix subdirectory handlingDavid Turner2-7/+79
Previously, some calls lookup_untracked would pass a full path. But lookup_untracked assumes that the portion of the path up to and including to the untracked_cache_dir has been removed. So lookup_untracked would be looking in the untracked_cache for 'foo' for 'foo/bar' (instead of just looking for 'bar'). This would cause untracked cache corruption. Instead, treat_directory learns to track the base length of the parent directory, so that only the last path component is passed to lookup_untracked. Helped-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-19t7063: use --force-untracked-cache to speed up a bitNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-1/+1
When in the middle of t7063, we are sure untracked cache is supported, so we can use --force-untracked-cache to skip the support detection phase and save a few seconds. It's also good that --force-untracked-cache is exercised in the test suite. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-17po/README: Update directions for l10n contributorsPhilip Oakley1-0/+19
Some Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu) have their own l10n workflows, and their translations may be different. Add notes for this case for l10n translators. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-14config: close config file handle in case of errorSven Strickroth1-1/+4
When updating an existing configuration file, we did not always close the filehandle that is reading from the current configuration file when we encountered an error (e.g. when unsetting a variable that does not exist). Signed-off-by: Sven Strickroth <email@cs-ware.de> Signed-off-by: Sup Yut Sum <ch3cooli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-12git_open_noatime: return with errno=0 on successClemens Buchacher1-1/+4
In read_sha1_file_extended we die if read_object fails with a fatal error. We detect a fatal error if errno is non-zero and is not ENOENT. If the object could not be read because it does not exist, this is not considered a fatal error and we want to return NULL. Somewhere down the line, read_object calls git_open_noatime to open a pack index file, for example. We first try open with O_NOATIME. If O_NOATIME fails with EPERM, we retry without O_NOATIME. When the second open succeeds, errno is however still set to EPERM from the first attempt. When we finally determine that the object does not exist, read_object returns NULL and read_sha1_file_extended dies with a fatal error: fatal: failed to read object <sha1>: Operation not permitted Fix this by resetting errno to zero before we call open again. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Clemens Buchacher <clemens.buchacher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-12t2019: skip test requiring '*' in a file name non WindowsJohannes Sixt1-1/+1
A test case introduced by ae454f61 (Add tests for wildcard "path vs ref" disambiguation) allocates a file named '*.c'. This does not work on Windows, because the OS forbids file names containing wildcard characters. The test case fails where the shell attempts to allocate the file. Skip the test on Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-11vreportf: avoid intermediate bufferJeff King1-3/+12
When we call "die(fmt, args...)", we end up in vreportf with two pieces of information: 1. The prefix "fatal: " 2. The original fmt and va_list of args. We format item (2) into a temporary buffer, and then fprintf the prefix and the temporary buffer, along with a newline. This has the unfortunate side effect of truncating any error messages that are longer than 4096 bytes. Instead, let's use separate calls for the prefix and newline, letting us hand the item (2) directly to vfprintf. This is essentially undoing d048a96 (print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot, 2007-11-09), which tried to have the whole output end up in a single `write` call. But we can address this instead by explicitly requesting line-buffering for the output handle, and by making sure that the buffer is empty before we start (so that outputting the prefix does not cause a flush due to hitting the buffer limit). We may still break the output into two writes if the content is larger than our buffer, but there's not much we can do there; depending on the stdio implementation, that might have happened even with a single fprintf call. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-11vreportf: report to arbitrary filehandlesJeff King3-29/+12
The vreportf function always goes to stderr, but run-command wants child errors to go to the parent's original stderr. To solve this, commit a5487dd duplicates the stderr fd and installs die and error handlers to direct the output appropriately (which later turned into the vwritef function). This has two downsides, though: - we make multiple calls to write(), which contradicts the "write at once" logic from d048a96 (print warning/error/fatal messages in one shot, 2007-11-09). - the custom handlers basically duplicate the normal handlers. They're only a few lines of code, but we should not have to repeat the magic "exit(128)", for example. We can solve the first by using fdopen() on the duplicated descriptor. We can't pass this to vreportf, but we could introduce a new vreportf_to to handle it. However, to fix the second problem, we instead introduce a new "set_error_handle" function, which lets the normal vreportf calls output to a handle besides stderr. Thus we can get rid of our custom handlers entirely, and just ask the regular handlers to output to our new descriptor. And as vwritef has no more callers, it can just go away. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10strbuf_read(): skip unnecessary strbuf_grow() at eofJim Hill1-5/+5
The loop in strbuf_read() uses xread() repeatedly while extending the strbuf until the call returns zero. If the buffer is sufficiently large to begin with, this results in xread() returning the remainder of the file to the end (returning non-zero), the loop extending the strbuf, and then making another call to xread() to have it return zero. By using read_in_full(), we can tell when the read reached the end of file: when it returns less than was requested, it's eof. This way we can avoid an extra iteration that allocates an extra 8kB that is never used. Signed-off-by: Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-08-10clone: use computed length in guess_dir_nameJeff King2-7/+8
Commit 7e837c6 (clone: simplify string handling in guess_dir_name(), 2015-07-09) changed clone to use strip_suffix instead of hand-rolled pointer manipulation. However, strip_suffix will strip from the end of a NUL-terminated string, and we may have already stripped some characters (like directory separators, or "/.git"). This leads to commands like: git clone host:foo.git/ failing to strip the ".git". We must instead convert our pointer arithmetic into a computed length and feed that to strip_suffix_mem, which will then reduce the length further for us. It would be nicer if we could drop the pointer manipulation entirely, and just continually strip using strip_suffix. But that doesn't quite work for two reasons: 1. The early suffixes we're stripping are not constant; we need to look for is_dir_sep, which could be one of several characters. 2. Mid-way through the stripping we compute the pointer "start", which shows us the beginning of the pathname. Which really give us two lengths to work with: the offset from the start of the string, and from the start of the path. By using pointers for the early part, we can just compute the length from "start" when we need it. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Acked-by: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>