Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fifth batch of topics

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index 3d244d3e03ae5c3d5afe452f903ba204849ad03b..9fd28bcd080ef0a64f0b8d8a5d9d680a741d75c3 100644 (file)
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -543,8 +543,14 @@ const char *relative_path(const char *in, const char *prefix,
  *
  * Note that this function is purely textual.  It does not follow symlinks,
  * verify the existence of the path, or make any system calls.
+ *
+ * prefix_len != NULL is for a specific case of prefix_pathspec():
+ * assume that src == dst and src[0..prefix_len-1] is already
+ * normalized, any time "../" eats up to the prefix_len part,
+ * prefix_len is reduced. In the end prefix_len is the remaining
+ * prefix that has not been overridden by user pathspec.
  */
-int normalize_path_copy(char *dst, const char *src)
+int normalize_path_copy_len(char *dst, const char *src, int *prefix_len)
 {
        char *dst0;
 
@@ -619,11 +625,18 @@ int normalize_path_copy(char *dst, const char *src)
                /* Windows: dst[-1] cannot be backslash anymore */
                while (dst0 < dst && dst[-1] != '/')
                        dst--;
+               if (prefix_len && *prefix_len > dst - dst0)
+                       *prefix_len = dst - dst0;
        }
        *dst = '\0';
        return 0;
 }
 
+int normalize_path_copy(char *dst, const char *src)
+{
+       return normalize_path_copy_len(dst, src, NULL);
+}
+
 /*
  * path = Canonical absolute path
  * prefixes = string_list containing normalized, absolute paths without