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+// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package vcs
+
+import (
+ "os"
+ "strings"
+)
+
+// envForDir returns a copy of the environment
+// suitable for running in the given directory.
+// The environment is the current process's environment
+// but with an updated $PWD, so that an os.Getwd in the
+// child will be faster.
+func envForDir(dir string) []string {
+ env := os.Environ()
+ // Internally we only use rooted paths, so dir is rooted.
+ // Even if dir is not rooted, no harm done.
+ return mergeEnvLists([]string{"PWD=" + dir}, env)
+}
+
+// mergeEnvLists merges the two environment lists such that
+// variables with the same name in "in" replace those in "out".
+func mergeEnvLists(in, out []string) []string {
+NextVar:
+ for _, inkv := range in {
+ k := strings.SplitAfterN(inkv, "=", 2)[0]
+ for i, outkv := range out {
+ if strings.HasPrefix(outkv, k) {
+ out[i] = inkv
+ continue NextVar
+ }
+ }
+ out = append(out, inkv)
+ }
+ return out
+}