git-svn: parse authors file more leniently

diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c
index 261804e666b77b22d69227562c3ec03365202f53..bb09b1ed27a6c973c93f5ec855973e277279549f 100644 (file)
--- a/unpack-trees.c
+++ b/unpack-trees.c
@@ -1029,10 +1029,12 @@ int unpack_trees(unsigned len, struct tree_desc *t, struct unpack_trees_options
        if (!core_apply_sparse_checkout || !o->update)
                o->skip_sparse_checkout = 1;
        if (!o->skip_sparse_checkout) {
-               if (add_excludes_from_file_to_list(git_path("info/sparse-checkout"), "", 0, &el, 0) < 0)
+               char *sparse = git_pathdup("info/sparse-checkout");
+               if (add_excludes_from_file_to_list(sparse, "", 0, &el, 0) < 0)
                        o->skip_sparse_checkout = 1;
                else
                        o->el = &el;
+               free(sparse);
        }
 
        memset(&o->result, 0, sizeof(o->result));