mingw: support UNC alternates

Just like we support having alternates pointing to different drives, we
want to support alternates pointing to network shares, i.e. UNC paths.

Technically, what we do in this patch is not to support UNC alternates,
but to support UNC paths when normalizing paths. But the latter implies
the former, and the former really was the motivation for this patch.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

Author: dscho

compat/mingw.h

@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ HANDLE winansi_get_osfhandle(int fd);
  */
 
 #define has_dos_drive_prefix(path) (isalpha(*(path)) && (path)[1] == ':')
+#define has_unc_prefix(path) (*(path) == '\\' && (path)[1] == '\\')
 #define is_dir_sep(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\')
 static inline char *mingw_find_last_dir_sep(const char *path)
 {

git-compat-util.h

@@ -331,6 +331,14 @@ static inline int git_has_dos_drive_prefix(const char *path)
 #define has_dos_drive_prefix git_has_dos_drive_prefix
 #endif
 
+#ifndef has_unc_prefix
+static inline int git_has_unc_prefix(const char *path)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#define has_unc_prefix git_has_unc_prefix
+#endif
+
 #ifndef is_dir_sep
 static inline int git_is_dir_sep(int c)
 {

path.c

@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ int normalize_path_copy_len(char *dst, const char *src, int *prefix_len)
 {
 	char *dst0;
 
-	if (has_dos_drive_prefix(src)) {
+	if (has_unc_prefix(src) || has_dos_drive_prefix(src)) {
 		*dst++ = *src++;
 		*dst++ = *src++;
 	}