user-manual: update for new default --track behavior

[git.git] / setup.c

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 3653092ab657942639b6183fb04b3af783b77e7a..4945eb3134c3e047f54e51db25cd0aa81d9c47d7 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -201,26 +201,32 @@ int is_inside_work_tree(void)
  */
 const char *set_work_tree(const char *dir)
 {
-       char dir_buffer[PATH_MAX];
-       static char buffer[PATH_MAX + 1], *rel = NULL;
-       int len, postfix_len = strlen(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT) + 1;
+       char dir_buffer[PATH_MAX], *rel = NULL;
+       static char buffer[PATH_MAX + 1];
+       int len, suffix_len = strlen(DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT) + 1;
 
        /* strip the variable 'dir' of the postfix "/.git" if it has it */
        len = strlen(dir);
-       if (len > postfix_len && !strcmp(dir + len - postfix_len,
-                               "/" DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT)) {
-                       strncpy(dir_buffer, dir, len - postfix_len);
+       if (len > suffix_len &&
+           !strcmp(dir + len - suffix_len, "/" DEFAULT_GIT_DIR_ENVIRONMENT)) {
+               if ((len - suffix_len) >= sizeof(dir_buffer))
+                       die("directory name too long");
+               memcpy(dir_buffer, dir, len - suffix_len);
+               dir_buffer[len - suffix_len] = '\0';
 
                /* are we inside the default work tree? */
                rel = get_relative_cwd(buffer, sizeof(buffer), dir_buffer);
        }
+
        /* if rel is set, the cwd is _not_ the current working tree */
        if (rel && *rel) {
                if (!is_absolute_path(dir))
                        set_git_dir(make_absolute_path(dir));
                dir = dir_buffer;
-               chdir(dir);
-               strcat(rel, "/");
+               if (chdir(dir))
+                       die("cannot chdir to %s: %s", dir, strerror(errno));
+               else
+                       strcat(rel, "/");
                inside_git_dir = 0;
        } else {
                rel = NULL;