Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: fix file name handling with non-empty prefix

From: John Keeping <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:18:39 +0100

I got a bounce with "550 no such user" for Pat's email address when
sending this.  Does anyone have more up-to-date contact details?  Or is
it just SourceForge being broken?

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 02:24:16PM +0100, John Keeping wrote:
> Commit e3d06ca (git-gui: Detect full path when parsing arguments -
> 2012-10-02) fixed the handling of absolute paths passed to the browser
> and blame subcommands by checking whether the file exists without the
> prefix before prepending the prefix and checking again.  Since we have
> chdir'd to the top level of the working tree before doing this, this
> does not work if a file with the same name exists in a subdirectory and
> at the top level (for example Makefile in git.git's t/ directory).
> 
> Instead of doing this, revert that patch and fix absolute path issue by
> using "file join" to prepend the prefix to the supplied path.  This will
> correctly handle absolute paths by skipping the prefix in that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Keeping <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  git-gui.sh | 14 +++-----------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
> index e133331..a94ad7f 100755
> --- a/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui.sh
> @@ -3003,19 +3003,11 @@ blame {
>  	set jump_spec {}
>  	set is_path 0
>  	foreach a $argv {
> -		if {[file exists $a]} {
> -			if {$path ne {}} usage
> -			set path [normalize_relpath $a]
> -			break
> -		} elseif {[file exists $_prefix$a]} {
> -			if {$path ne {}} usage
> -			set path [normalize_relpath $_prefix$a]
> -			break
> -		}
> +		set p [file join $_prefix $a]
>  
> -		if {$is_path} {
> +		if {$is_path || [file exists $p]} {
>  			if {$path ne {}} usage
> -			set path [normalize_relpath $_prefix$a]
> +			set path [normalize_relpath $p]
>  			break
>  		} elseif {$a eq {--}} {
>  			if {$path ne {}} {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.rc0.149.g98a72f2.dirty