bisect--helper: rewrite `check_term_format` shell function in C

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 23950173fc01268320d2e23c36ef80a1b1231a5e..d777ff34b7daf50fb24a8653a7e26e3e95b8c0c7 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -399,11 +399,6 @@ void setup_work_tree(void)
        if (getenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT))
                setenv(GIT_WORK_TREE_ENVIRONMENT, ".", 1);
 
-       /*
-        * NEEDSWORK: this call can essentially be set_git_dir(get_git_dir())
-        * which can cause some problems when trying to free the old value of
-        * gitdir.
-        */
        set_git_dir(remove_leading_path(git_dir, work_tree));
        initialized = 1;
 }
@@ -546,7 +541,8 @@ void read_gitfile_error_die(int error_code, const char *path, const char *dir)
 
 /*
  * Try to read the location of the git directory from the .git file,
- * return path to git directory if found.
+ * return path to git directory if found. The return value comes from
+ * a shared buffer.
  *
  * On failure, if return_error_code is not NULL, return_error_code
  * will be set to an error code and NULL will be returned. If