This tests primarily for NTFS issues, but also adds one example of an
HFS+ issue.

Thanks go to Congyi Wu for coming up with the list of examples where
NTFS would possibly equate the filename with `.gitmodules`.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>

 cygwin can use an UNC path like //server/share/repo

 $ cd //server/share/dir
 $ mkdir test
 $ cd test
 $ git init --bare

 However, when we try to push from a local Git repository to this repo,
 there is a problem: Git converts the leading "//" into a single "/".

 As cygwin handles an UNC path so well, Git can support them better:

 - Introduce cygwin_offset_1st_component() which keeps the leading "//",
   similar to what Git for Windows does.

 - Move CYGWIN out of the POSIX in the tests for path normalization in t0060
Signed-off-by: NTorsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When an MSYS program (such as the bash that drives the test suite)
invokes git on Windows, absolute Unix style paths are transformed into
Windows native absolute paths (drive letter form). However, this
transformation also includes some simplifications that are not just
straight-forward textual substitutions:

- When the path ends in "/.", then the dot is stripped, but not the
  directory separator.

- When the path contains "..", then it is optimized away if possible,
  e.g., "/c/dir/foo/../bar" becomes "c:/dir/bar".

These additional transformations violate the assumptions of some
submodule path tests. We can avoid them when the input is already a
Windows native path, because then MSYS leaves the path unmolested.

Convert the uses of $PWD to $(pwd); the latter returns a native Windows
path.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This is similar to the previous patch, though no user reported a bug and
I could not find a regressive behavior.

However it is a good thing to be strict on the output and for that we
always omit a trailing slash.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Before 63e95beb (2016-04-15, submodule: port resolve_relative_url from
shell to C), it did not matter if the superprojects URL had a trailing
slash or not. It was just chopped off as one of the first steps
(The "remoteurl=${remoteurl%/}" near the beginning of
resolve_relative_url(), which was removed in said commit).

When porting this to the C version, an off-by-one error was introduced
and we did not check the actual last character to be a slash, but the
NULL delimiter.

Reintroduce the behavior from before 63e95beb, to ignore the trailing
slash.

Reported-by: <venv21@gmail.com>
Helped-by: NDennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Later on we want to automatically call `git submodule init` from
other commands, such that the users don't have to initialize the
submodule themselves.  As these other commands are written in C
already, we'd need the init functionality in C, too.  The
`resolve_relative_url` function is a large part of that init
functionality, so start by porting this function to C.

To create the tests in t0060, the function `resolve_relative_url`
was temporarily enhanced to write all inputs and output to disk
when running the test suite. The added tests in this patch are
a small selection thereof.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

On Windows, there are no POSIX paths, only Windows ones (an absolute
Windows path looks like "C:\Program Files\Git\ReleaseNotes.html", under
most circumstances, forward slashes are also allowed and synonymous to
backslashes).

So when a POSIX shell (such as MSYS2's Bash, which is used by Git for
Windows to execute all those shell scripts that are part of Git) passes
a POSIX path to test-path-utils.exe (which is not POSIX-aware), the path
is translated into a Windows path. For example, /etc/profile becomes
C:/Program Files/Git/etc/profile.

This path translation poses a problem when passing the root directory as
parameter to test-path-utils.exe, as it is not well defined whether the
translated root directory should end in a slash or not. MSys1 stripped
the trailing slash, but MSYS2 does not.

Originally, the Git for Windows project patched MSYS2's runtime to
accomodate Git's regression test, but we really should do it the other
way round.

To work with both of MSys1's and MSYS2's behaviors, we simply test what
the current system does in the beginning of t0060-path-utils.sh and then
adjust the expected longest ancestor length accordingly.

It looks quite a bit tricky what we actually do in this patch: first, we
adjust the expected length for the trailing slash we did not originally
expect (subtracting one). So far, so good.

But now comes the part where things work in a surprising way: when the
expected length was 0, the prefix to match is the root directory. If the
root directory is converted into a path with a trailing slash, however,
we know that the logic in longest_ancestor_length() cannot match: to
avoid partial matches of the last directory component, it verifies that
the character after the matching prefix is a slash (but because the
slash was part of the matching prefix, the next character cannot be a
slash). So the return value is -1. Alas, this is exactly what the
expected length is after subtracting the value of $rootslash! So we skip
adding the $rootoff value in that case (and only in that case).

Directories other than the root directory are handled fine (as they are
specified without a trailing slash, something not possible for the root
directory, and MSYS2 converts them into Windows paths that also lack
trailing slashes), therefore we do not need any more special handling.

Thanks to Ray Donnelly for his patient help with this issue.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Unfortunately, some libgen implementations yield outcomes different
from what Git expects. For example, mingw-w64-crt provides a basename()
function, that shortens `path0/` to `path`!

So let's verify that the basename() and dirname() functions we use
conform to what Git expects.
Derived-from-code-by: NRamsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

We need the place we stick refs for bisects in progress to not be
shared between worktrees.  So we make the refs/bisect/ hierarchy
per-worktree.

The is_per_worktree_ref function and associated docs learn that
refs/bisect/ is per-worktree, as does the git_path code in path.c

The ref-packing functions learn that per-worktree refs should not be
packed (since packed-refs is common rather than per-worktree).

Since refs/bisect is per-worktree, logs/refs/bisect should be too.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Instead of a linear search over common_list to check whether
a path is common, use a trie.  The trie search operates on
path prefixes, and handles excludes.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Currently git_path("info/sparse-checkout") resolves to
$GIT_COMMON_DIR/info/sparse-checkout in multiple worktree mode. It
makes more sense for the sparse checkout patterns to be per worktree,
so you can have multiple checkouts with different parts of the tree.

With this, "git checkout --to <new>" on a sparse checkout will create
<new> as a full checkout. Which is expected, it's how a new checkout
is made. The user can reshape the worktree afterwards.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This variable is intended to support multiple working directories
attached to a repository. Such a repository may have a main working
directory, created by either "git init" or "git clone" and one or more
linked working directories. These working directories and the main
repository share the same repository directory.

In linked working directories, $GIT_COMMON_DIR must be defined to point
to the real repository directory and $GIT_DIR points to an unused
subdirectory inside $GIT_COMMON_DIR. File locations inside the
repository are reorganized from the linked worktree view point:

 - worktree-specific such as HEAD, logs/HEAD, index, other top-level
   refs and unrecognized files are from $GIT_DIR.

 - the rest like objects, refs, info, hooks, packed-refs, shallow...
   are from $GIT_COMMON_DIR (except info/sparse-checkout, but that's
   a separate patch)

Scripts are supposed to retrieve paths in $GIT_DIR with "git rev-parse
--git-path", which will take care of "$GIT_DIR vs $GIT_COMMON_DIR"
business.

The redirection is done by git_path(), git_pathdup() and
strbuf_git_path(). The selected list of paths goes to $GIT_COMMON_DIR,
not the other way around in case a developer adds a new
worktree-specific file and it's accidentally promoted to be shared
across repositories (this includes unknown files added by third party
commands)

The list of known files that belong to $GIT_DIR are:

ADD_EDIT.patch BISECT_ANCESTORS_OK BISECT_EXPECTED_REV BISECT_LOG
BISECT_NAMES CHERRY_PICK_HEAD COMMIT_MSG FETCH_HEAD HEAD MERGE_HEAD
MERGE_MODE MERGE_RR NOTES_EDITMSG NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE ORIG_HEAD
REVERT_HEAD SQUASH_MSG TAG_EDITMSG fast_import_crash_* logs/HEAD
next-index-* rebase-apply rebase-merge rsync-refs-* sequencer/*
shallow_*

Path mapping is NOT done for git_path_submodule(). Multi-checkouts are
not supported as submodules.
Helped-by: NJens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

We allow the user to relocate certain paths out of $GIT_DIR via
environment variables, e.g. GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY, GIT_INDEX_FILE and
GIT_GRAFT_FILE. Callers are not supposed to use git_path() or
git_pathdup() to get those paths. Instead they must use
get_object_directory(), get_index_file() and get_graft_file()
respectively. This is inconvenient and could be missed in review (for
example, there's git_path("objects/info/alternates") somewhere in
sha1_file.c).

This patch makes git_path() and git_pathdup() understand those
environment variables. So if you set GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY to /foo/bar,
git_path("objects/abc") should return /foo/bar/abc. The same is done
for the two remaining env variables.

"git rev-parse --git-path" is the wrapper for script use.

This patch kinda reverts a0279e18 (setup_git_env: use git_pathdup
instead of xmalloc + sprintf - 2014-06-19) because using git_pathdup
here would result in infinite recursion:

  setup_git_env() -> git_pathdup("objects") -> .. -> adjust_git_path()
  -> get_object_directory() -> oops, git_object_directory is NOT set
  yet -> setup_git_env()

I wanted to make git_pathdup_literal() that skips adjust_git_path().
But that won't work because later on when $GIT_COMMON_DIR is
introduced, git_pathdup_literal("objects") needs adjust_git_path() to
replace $GIT_DIR with $GIT_COMMON_DIR.
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The prefix_path_gently() function currently applies real_path to
everything if given an absolute path, dereferencing symlinks both
outside and inside the work tree.

This causes most high-level functions to misbehave when acting on
symlinks given via absolute paths. For example

	$ git add /dir/repo/symlink

attempts to add the target of the symlink rather than the symlink
itself, which is usually not what the user intends to do.

In order to manipulate symlinks in the work tree using absolute paths,
symlinks should only be dereferenced outside the work tree.

Modify the prefix_path_gently() to first normalize the path in order to
make sure path levels are separated by '/', then pass the result to
'abspath_part_inside_repo' to find the part inside the work tree
(without dereferencing any symlinks inside the work tree).

For absolute paths, prefix_path_gently() did not, nor does now do, any
actual prefixing, hence the result from abspath_part_in_repo() is
returned as-is.

Fixes t0060-82 and t3004-5.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NDuy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

One edge-case that isn't currently checked in the tests is the beginning
of the path matching the work tree, despite the target not actually
being the work tree, for example:

  path = /dir/repoa
  work_tree = /dir/repo

should fail since the path is outside the repo. However, if /dir/repoa
is in fact a symlink that points to /dir/repo, it should instead
succeed.

Add two tests covering these cases, since they might be potential
regression points.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NDuy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The current behaviour of prefix_path is to return an empty string if
prefixing and absolute path that only contains exactly the work tree.
This behaviour is a potential regression point.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NDuy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

When symlinks in the working tree are manipulated using the absolute
path, git dereferences them, and tries to manipulate the link target
instead.

This applies to most high-level commands but prefix_path is the common
denominator for all of them.

Add a known-breakage tests using the prefix_path function, which
currently uses real_path, causing the dereference.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NDuy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

mingw_path was introduced in abd4284b to output a mangled path as it is
passed as an argument to main(). But the name is misleading because
mangling does not come from MinGW, but from MSYS [1]. As abd4284b does not
introduce any MSYS or MinGW specific code but just prints out argv[2] as
it is passed to main(), give the function the more generic and less
confusing name "print_path".

[1] http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Posix_path_conversionSigned-off-by: NSebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Tvangeste found that the "relative_path" function could not work
properly on Windows if "in" and "prefix" have DOS drive prefix
(such as "C:/windows"). ($gmane/234434)

E.g., When execute: test-path-utils relative_path "C:/a/b" "D:/x/y",
should return "C:/a/b", but returns "../../C:/a/b", which is wrong.

So make relative_path honor DOS drive prefix, and add test cases
for it in t0060.
Reported-by: NTvangeste <i.4m.l33t@yandex.ru>
Helped-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

In test cases for relative_path, path with one leading character
(such as /a, /x) may be recogonized as "a:/" or "x:/" if there is
such DOS drive on MSYS platform. Use an umambigous leading path
"/foo" instead.

Also change two leading slashes (//) to three leading slashes (///),
otherwize it will be recognized as UNC name on MSYS platform.
Signed-off-by: NJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NSebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

Some test cases are skipped on Windows by marking with POSIX prereq.
This is because arguments look like absolute paths (such as /a/b)
for regular Windows programs (*.exe executables, no bash scripts)
are changed to Windows paths (like C:/msysgit/a/b).

There is no cygpath nor equivalent on msysGit, but it is easy to
write one. New subcommand "mingw_path" is added in test-path-utils,
so that we can get the expected absolute paths on Windows. E.g.

    COMMAND LINE                        Linux output  Windows output
    ==================================  ============  ===============
    test-path-utils mingw_path /        /             C:/msysgit
    test-path-utils mingw_path /a/b/    /a/b/         C:/msysgit/a/b/

With this utility, most skipped test cases in t0060 can be turned on
to be tested correctly on Windows.
Signed-off-by: NJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Original design of relative_path() is simple, just strip the prefix
(*base) from the absolute path (*abs).

In most cases, we need a real relative path, such as: ../foo,
../../bar.  That's why there is another reimplementation
(path_relative()) in quote.c.

Borrow some codes from path_relative() in quote.c to refactor
relative_path() in path.c, so that it could return real relative
path, and user can reuse this function without reimplementing
his/her own.  The function path_relative() in quote.c will be
substituted, and I would use the new relative_path() function when
implementing the interactive git-clean later.

Different results for relative_path() before and after this refactor:

    abs path  base path  relative (original)  relative (refactor)
    ========  =========  ===================  ===================
    /a/b      /a/b       .                    ./
    /a/b/     /a/b       .                    ./
    /a        /a/b/      /a                   ../
    /         /a/b/      /                    ../../
    /a/c      /a/b/      /a/c                 ../c
    /x/y      /a/b/      /x/y                 ../../x/y

    a/b/      a/b/       .                    ./
    a/b/      a/b        .                    ./
    a         a/b        a                    ../
    x/y       a/b/       x/y                  ../../x/y
    a/c       a/b        a/c                  ../c

    (empty)   (null)     (empty)              ./
    (empty)   (empty)    (empty)              ./
    (empty)   /a/b       (empty)              ./
    (null)    (null)     (null)               ./
    (null)    (empty)    (null)               ./
    (null)    /a/b       (segfault)           ./

You may notice that return value "." has been changed to "./".
It is because:

 * Function quote_path_relative() in quote.c will show the relative
   path as "./" if abs(in) and base(prefix) are the same.

 * Function relative_path() is called only once (in setup.c), and
   it will be OK for the return value as "./" instead of ".".
Signed-off-by: NJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Add subcommand "relative_path" in test-path-utils, and add test cases
in t0060.

Johannes tested an earlier version of this patch on Windows, and
found that some relative_path tests should be skipped on
Windows. This is because the bash on Windows rewrites arguments of
regular Windows programs, such as git and the test helpers, if the
arguments look like absolute POSIX paths. As a consequence, the
actual tests performed are not what the tests scripts expect.

The tests that need *not* be skipped are those where the two paths passed
to 'test-path-utils relative_path' have the same prefix and the result is
expected to be a relative path. This is because the rewriting changes
"/a/b" to "D:/Src/MSysGit/a/b", and when both inputs are extended the same
way, this just cancels out in the relative path computation.
Signed-off-by: NJiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Helped-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Move the responsibility for normalizing prefixes from
longest_ancestor_length() to its callers. Use slightly different
normalizations at the two callers:

In setup_git_directory_gently_1(), use the old normalization, which
ignores paths that are not usable.  In the next commit we will change
this caller to also resolve symlinks in the paths from
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES as part of the normalization.

In "test-path-utils longest_ancestor_length", use the old
normalization, but die() if any paths are unusable.  Also change t0060
to only pass normalized paths to the test program (no empty entries or
non-absolute paths, strip trailing slashes from the paths, and remove
tests that thereby become redundant).

The point of this change is to reduce the scope of the ancestor_length
tests in t0060 from testing normalization+longest_prefix to testing
only mostly longest_prefix.  This is necessary because when
setup_git_directory_gently_1() starts resolving symlinks as part of
its normalization, it will not be reasonable to do the same in the
test suite, because that would make the test results depend on the
contents of the root directory of the filesystem on which the test is
run.  HOWEVER: under Windows, bash mangles arguments that look like
absolute POSIX paths into DOS paths.  So we have to retain the level
of normalization done by normalize_path_copy() to convert the
bash-mangled DOS paths (which contain backslashes) into paths that use
forward slashes.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>

Only the first half of the test works only on POSIX, the second half
passes on Windows as well.

A later test "real path removes other extra slashes" looks very similar,
but it does not make sense to split it in the same way: When two slashes
are prepended in front of an absolute DOS-style path on Windows, the
meaning of the path is changed (//server/share style), so that the test
cannot pass on Windows.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Adjusted for Windows by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

The change has two points:

1. Do not strip off a leading slash, because that erroneously turns an
   absolute path into a relative path.

2. Do not remove slashes from groups of multiple slashes; instead let
   chdir() handle them.  It could be, for example, that it wants to
   leave leading double-slashes alone.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

There is currently a bug: if passed an absolute top-level path that
doesn't exist (e.g., "/foo") it incorrectly interprets the path as a
relative path (e.g., returns "$(pwd)/foo").  So mark the test as
failing.

These tests are skipped on Windows because test-path-utils operates on
a DOS-style absolute path even if a POSIX style absolute path is
passed as argument.

Adjusted for Windows by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

It doesn't, so mark the test as failing.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

It doesn't, so mark the test as failing.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Suggested by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Some platforms like to stick extra whitespace in the output
of "wc -c"; using the result without quotes gets the shell
to collapse the whitespace.
Signed-off-by: NJeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Since the MSYS bash mangles absolute paths that it passes as command line
arguments to non-MSYS progams (such as git or test-path-utils), we have to
bend over backwards to squeeze some usefulness out of the existing tests.

In particular, a set of path normalization tests is added that test
relative paths. Some paths in the ancestor path tests are adjusted to help
MSYS bash's path mangling heuristics.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

The function strip_path_suffix() will try to strip a given suffix from
a given path.  The suffix must start at a directory boundary (i.e. "core"
is not a path suffix of "libexec/git-core", but "git-core" is).

Arbitrary runs of directory separators ("slashes") are assumed identical.

Example:

	strip_path_suffix("C:\\msysgit/\\libexec\\git-core",
		"libexec///git-core", &prefix)

will set prefix to "C:\\msysgit" and return 0.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This changes the test-path-utils utility to invoke normalize_path_copy()
instead of normalize_absolute_path() because the latter is about to be
removed.

The test cases in t0060 are adjusted in two regards:

- normalize_path_copy() more often leaves a trailing slash in the result.
  This has no negative side effects because the new user of this function,
  longest_ancester_length(), already accounts for this behavior.

- The function can fail.

The tests uncover a flaw in normalize_path_copy(): If there are
sufficiently many '..' path components so that the root is reached, such as
in "/d1/s1/../../d2", then the leading slash was lost. This manifested
itself that (assuming there is a repository at /tmp/foo)

  $ git add /d1/../tmp/foo/some-file

reported 'pathspec is outside repository'. This is now fixed.

Moreover, the test case descriptions of t0060 now include the test data and
expected outcome.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Make git recognize a new environment variable that prevents it from
chdir'ing up into specified directories when looking for a GIT_DIR.
Useful for avoiding slow network directories.

For example, I use git in an environment where homedirs are automounted
and "ls /home/nonexistent" takes about 9 seconds.  Setting
GIT_CEILING_DIRS="/home" allows "git help -a" (for bash completion) and
"git symbolic-ref" (for my shell prompt) to run in a reasonable time.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

normalize_absolute_path removes several oddities form absolute paths,
giving nice clean paths like "/dir/sub1/sub2".  Also add a test case
for this utility, based on a new test program (in the style of test-sha1).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>