git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo' is working (again)

A regression for cygwin users was introduced with commit 05b458c,
 "real_path: resolve symlinks by hand".

In the the commit message we read:
  The current implementation of real_path uses chdir() in order to resolve
    symlinks.  Unfortunately this isn't thread-safe as chdir() affects a
      process as a whole...

The old (and non-thread-save) OS calls chdir()/pwd() had been
replaced by a string operation.
The cygwin layer "knows" that "C:\cygwin" is an absolute path,
but the new string operation does not.

"git clone <url> C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo" fails like this:
fatal: Invalid path '/home/USER/repo/C:\cygwin\home\USER\repo'

The solution is to implement has_dos_drive_prefix(), skip_dos_drive_prefix()
is_dir_sep(), offset_1st_component() and convert_slashes() for cygwin
in the same way as it is done in 'Git for Windows' in compat/mingw.[ch]

Extract the needed code into compat/win32/path-utils.[ch] and use it
for cygwin as well.

Reported-by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 5f2e90932f..925a8ae72b 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -190,10 +190,11 @@
 #endif
 
 #if defined(__CYGWIN__)
-#include "compat/cygwin.h"
+#include "compat/win32/path-utils.h"
 #endif
 #if defined(__MINGW32__)
 /* pull in Windows compatibility stuff */
+#include "compat/win32/path-utils.h"
 #include "compat/mingw.h"
 #elif defined(_MSC_VER)
 #include "compat/msvc.h"