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dscho added 3 commits November 5, 2018 16:05
The first offset in a UNC path is not the host name, but the folder name after that.

This fixes git-for-windows#1181

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
A very common assumption in Git's source code base is that
offset_1st_component() returns either 0 for relative paths, or 1 for
absolute paths that start with a slash. In other words, the return value
is either 0 or points just after the dir separator.

This assumption is not fulfilled when calling offset_1st_component()
e.g. on UNC paths on Windows, e.g. "//my-server/my-share". In this case,
offset_1st_component() returns the length of the entire string (which is
correct, because stripping the last "component" would not result in a
valid directory), yet the return value still does not point just after a
dir separator.

This assumption is most prominently seen in the
setup_git_directory_gently_1() function, where we want to append a
".git" component and simply assume that there is already a dir
separator. In the UNC example given above, this assumption is incorrect.

As a consequence, Git will fail to handle a worktree at the top of a UNC
share correctly.

Let's fix this by adding a dir separator specifically for that case: we
found that there is no first component in the path and it does not end
in a dir separator? Then add it.

This fixes git-for-windows#1320

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
When working in the root directory of a file share (this is only
possible in Git Bash and Powershell, but not in CMD), the current
directory is reported without a trailing slash.

This is different from Unix and standard Windows directories: both / and
C:\ are reported with a trailing slash as current directories.

If a Git worktree is located there, Git is not quite prepared for that:
while it does manage to find the .git directory/file, it returns as
length of the top-level directory's path *one more* than the length of
the current directory, and setup_git_directory_gently() would then
return an undefined string as prefix.

In practice, this undefined string usually points to NUL bytes, and does
not cause much harm. Under rare circumstances that are really involved
to reproduce (and not reliably so), the reported prefix could be a
suffix string of Git's exec path, though.

A careful analysis determined that this bug is unlikely to be
exploitable, therefore we mark this as a regular bug fix.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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