From f6253f4c6ba301954a5b9beed4e5b41e74bb8004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:27:07 -0500
Subject: Oops... *Now* I've fixed 0cad

---
 libbe/git.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'libbe/git.py')

diff --git a/libbe/git.py b/libbe/git.py
index 5c377fd..172c324 100644
--- a/libbe/git.py
+++ b/libbe/git.py
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ def strip_git(filename):
     # Find the base path of the GIT tree, in order to strip that leading
     # path from arguments to git -- it doesn't like absolute paths.
     if os.path.isabs(filename):
-        filename = filename[len(git_repo_for_path('.'))+1:]
+        absRepoDir = os.path.abspath(git_repo_for_path('.'))
+        absRepoSlashedDir = os.path.join(absRepoDir,"")
+        assert filename.startswith(absRepoSlashedDir), \
+            "file %s not in git repo %s" % (filename, absRepoSlashedDir)
+        filename = filename.lstrip(absRepoSlashedDir)
     return filename
 
 def invoke_client(*args, **kwargs):
-- 
cgit