difftool: chdir as early as possible

Make difftool chdir to the top-level of the repository as soon as it can
so that we can simplify how paths are handled.  Replace construction of
absolute paths via string concatenation with relative paths wherever
possible.  The bulk of the code no longer needs to use absolute paths.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
index 17c336321f..99b03949bf 100755
--- a/git-difftool.perl
+++ b/git-difftool.perl
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ sub exit_cleanup
 
 sub use_wt_file
 {
-	my ($workdir, $file, $sha1) = @_;
+	my ($file, $sha1) = @_;
 	my $null_sha1 = '0' x 40;
 
-	if (-l "$workdir/$file" || ! -e _) {
+	if (-l $file || ! -e _) {
 		return (0, $null_sha1);
 	}
 
-	my $wt_sha1 = Git::command_oneline('hash-object', "$workdir/$file");
+	my $wt_sha1 = Git::command_oneline('hash-object', $file);
 	my $use = ($sha1 eq $null_sha1) || ($sha1 eq $wt_sha1);
 	return ($use, $wt_sha1);
 }
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ sub setup_dir_diff
 	my $diffrtn = Git::command_oneline(@gitargs);
 	exit(0) unless defined($diffrtn);
 
+	# Go to the root of the worktree now that we've captured the list of
+	# changed files.  The paths returned by diff --raw are relative to the
+	# top-level of the repository, but we defer changing directories so
+	# that @ARGV can perform pathspec limiting in the current directory.
+	chdir($workdir);
+
 	# Build index info for left and right sides of the diff
 	my $submodule_mode = '160000';
 	my $symlink_mode = '120000';
@@ -172,7 +178,7 @@ EOF
 				next;
 			}
 			my ($use, $wt_sha1) =
-				use_wt_file($workdir, $dst_path, $rsha1);
+				use_wt_file($dst_path, $rsha1);
 			if ($use) {
 				push @working_tree, $dst_path;
 				$wtindex .= "$rmode $wt_sha1\t$dst_path\0";
@@ -182,10 +188,6 @@ EOF
 		}
 	}
 
-	# Go to the root of the worktree so that the left index files
-	# are properly setup -- the index is toplevel-relative.
-	chdir($workdir);
-
 	# Setup temp directories
 	my $tmpdir = tempdir('git-difftool.XXXXX', CLEANUP => 0, TMPDIR => 1);
 	my $ldir = "$tmpdir/left";
@@ -235,10 +237,10 @@ EOF
 			symlink("$workdir/$file", "$rdir/$file") or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
 		} else {
-			copy("$workdir/$file", "$rdir/$file") or
+			copy($file, "$rdir/$file") or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
 
-			my $mode = stat("$workdir/$file")->mode;
+			my $mode = stat($file)->mode;
 			chmod($mode, "$rdir/$file") or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
 		}
@@ -430,10 +432,10 @@ sub dir_diff
 			$error = 1;
 		} elsif (exists $tmp_modified{$file}) {
 			my $mode = stat("$b/$file")->mode;
-			copy("$b/$file", "$workdir/$file") or
+			copy("$b/$file", $file) or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
 
-			chmod($mode, "$workdir/$file") or
+			chmod($mode, $file) or
 			exit_cleanup($tmpdir, 1);
 		}
 	}