Merge branch 'bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix'

* bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix:
  Clarify commit error message for unmerged files
  Use strchrnul() instead of strchr() plus manual workaround
  Use remove_path from dir.c instead of own implementation
  Add remove_path: a function to remove as much as possible of a path
  git-submodule: Fix "Unable to checkout" for the initial 'update'
  Clarify how the user can satisfy stash's 'dirty state' check.
  t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns
  t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns
  make "git remote" report multiple URLs
  diff hunk pattern: fix misconverted "\{" tex macro introducers
  diff: fix "multiple regexp" semantics to find hunk header comment
  diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers
  diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers
  diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection
  diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex
  diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern

Conflicts:
	builtin-merge-recursive.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
	xdiff-interface.h

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index 2ab4aba5a0..e2c611bf96 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "delta.h"
 #include "builtin.h"
 #include "string-list.h"
+#include "dir.h"
 
 /*
  *  --check turns on checking that the working tree matches the
@@ -2735,15 +2736,7 @@ static void remove_file(struct patch *patch, int rmdir_empty)
 				warning("unable to remove submodule %s",
 					patch->old_name);
 		} else if (!unlink(patch->old_name) && rmdir_empty) {
-			char *name = xstrdup(patch->old_name);
-			char *end = strrchr(name, '/');
-			while (end) {
-				*end = 0;
-				if (rmdir(name))
-					break;
-				end = strrchr(name, '/');
-			}
-			free(name);
+			remove_path(patch->old_name);
 		}
 	}
 }