From 679eebe24d4c2120f8c01fb4524fcc489718fc9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ren=C3=A9=20Scharfe?= <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:33:55 +0200
Subject: 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>
---
 Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Documentation/technical')

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
index 834c406b3..1639a4a56 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt
@@ -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
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