Sync with Git 2.13.7

* maint-2.13:
  Git 2.13.7
  verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules
  update-index: stat updated files earlier
  verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment
  verify_path: drop clever fallthrough
  skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant
  is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests
  is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files
  is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files
  is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string
  submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index bf4869dcef..6cb3c2f19e 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -980,6 +980,23 @@ static inline int sane_iscase(int x, int is_lower)
 		return (x & 0x20) == 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Like skip_prefix, but compare case-insensitively. Note that the comparison
+ * is done via tolower(), so it is strictly ASCII (no multi-byte characters or
+ * locale-specific conversions).
+ */
+static inline int skip_iprefix(const char *str, const char *prefix,
+			       const char **out)
+{
+	do {
+		if (!*prefix) {
+			*out = str;
+			return 1;
+		}
+	} while (tolower(*str++) == tolower(*prefix++));
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int strtoul_ui(char const *s, int base, unsigned int *result)
 {
 	unsigned long ul;