regex: use regexec_buf()

diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 19ef081103a56e3c723749dc172ccc356a9b795c..ce7e4e8da3947bb2c527c49d6d09e1e49b0392c3 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ sub repository {
                };
 
                if ($dir) {
-                       $dir =~ m#^/# or $dir = $opts{Directory} . '/' . $dir;
+                       _verify_require();
+                       File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute($dir) or $dir = $opts{Directory} . '/' . $dir;
                        $opts{Repository} = abs_path($dir);
 
                        # If --git-dir went ok, this shouldn't die either.
@@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ sub command_close_pipe {
 Execute the given C<COMMAND> in the same way as command_output_pipe()
 does but return both an input pipe filehandle and an output pipe filehandle.
 
-The function will return return C<($pid, $pipe_in, $pipe_out, $ctx)>.
+The function will return C<($pid, $pipe_in, $pipe_out, $ctx)>.
 See C<command_close_bidi_pipe()> for details.
 
 =cut