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authorRené Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>2014-07-28 18:33:55 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-08-26 18:06:06 (GMT)
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abspath: convert absolute_path() to strbuf
Move most of the code of absolute_path() into the new function strbuf_add_absolute_path() and in the process transform it to use struct strbuf and xgetcwd() instead of a PATH_MAX-sized buffer, which can be too small on some file systems. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ same behaviour as well.
Set the buffer to the path of the current working directory.
+`strbuf_add_absolute_path`
+
+ Add a path to a buffer, converting a relative path to an
+ absolute one in the process. Symbolic links are not
+ resolved.
+
`stripspace`::
Strip whitespace from a buffer. The second parameter controls if