setup: introduce startup_info->original_cwd

Removing the current working directory causes all subsequent git
commands run from that directory to get confused and fail with a message
about being unable to read the current working directory:

    $ git status
    fatal: Unable to read current working directory: No such file or directory

Non-git commands likely have similar warnings or even errors, e.g.

    $ bash -c 'echo hello'
    shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
    hello

This confuses end users, particularly since the command they get the
error from is not the one that caused the problem; the problem came from
the side-effect of some previous command.

We would like to avoid removing the current working directory of our
parent process; towards this end, introduce a new variable,
startup_info->original_cwd, that tracks the current working directory
that we inherited from our parent process.  For convenience of later
comparisons, we prefer that this new variable store a path relative to
the toplevel working directory (thus much like 'prefix'), except without
the trailing slash.

Subsequent commits will make use of this new variable.

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/common-main.c b/common-main.c
index 71e21dd20a..aa8d5aba5b 100644
--- a/common-main.c
+++ b/common-main.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ static void restore_sigpipe_to_default(void)
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	int result;
+	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
 
 	trace2_initialize_clock();
 
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	trace2_cmd_start(argv);
 	trace2_collect_process_info(TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_STARTUP);
 
+	if (!strbuf_getcwd(&tmp))
+		tmp_original_cwd = strbuf_detach(&tmp, NULL);
+
 	result = cmd_main(argc, argv);
 
 	trace2_cmd_exit(result);