real_path(): properly handle nonexistent top-level paths

The change has two points:

1. Do not strip off a leading slash, because that erroneously turns an
   absolute path into a relative path.

2. Do not remove slashes from groups of multiple slashes; instead let
   chdir() handle them.  It could be, for example, that it wants to
   leave leading double-slashes alone.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/abspath.c b/abspath.c
index 3e8325c736..05f2d79348 100644
--- a/abspath.c
+++ b/abspath.c
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ const char *real_path(const char *path)
 		if (!is_directory(buf)) {
 			char *last_slash = find_last_dir_sep(buf);
 			if (last_slash) {
-				*last_slash = '\0';
 				last_elem = xstrdup(last_slash + 1);
+				last_slash[1] = '\0';
 			} else {
 				last_elem = xstrdup(buf);
 				*buf = '\0';