format-patch: improve head calculation for cover-letter

diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index d3d3f8b8ad75b9817df3014296aabc34b6a4eb14..2fdccc2f18367399b8247ee79ec8bf4934f596cb 100644 (file)
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -14,6 +14,22 @@
 #include "strbuf.h"
 #include "string-list.h"
 
+#ifndef get_st_mode_bits
+/*
+ * The replacement lstat(2) we use on Cygwin is incomplete and
+ * may return wrong permission bits. Most of the time we do not care,
+ * but the callsites of this wrapper do care.
+ */
+int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode)
+{
+       struct stat st;
+       if (lstat(path, &st) < 0)
+               return -1;
+       *mode = st.st_mode;
+       return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 static char bad_path[] = "/bad-path/";
 
 static char *get_pathname(void)
@@ -391,7 +407,6 @@ const char *enter_repo(const char *path, int strict)
 
 int set_shared_perm(const char *path, int mode)
 {
-       struct stat st;
        int tweak, shared, orig_mode;
 
        if (!shared_repository) {
@@ -400,9 +415,8 @@ int set_shared_perm(const char *path, int mode)
                return 0;
        }
        if (!mode) {
-               if (lstat(path, &st) < 0)
+               if (get_st_mode_bits(path, &mode) < 0)
                        return -1;
-               mode = st.st_mode;
                orig_mode = mode;
        } else
                orig_mode = 0;