commit 14b06f5be2dfe9c9be72df04af1542618d5d6b24
Author: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date:   Wed Oct 20 21:51:34 2010 -0400

    hack: strip paths for fast-import
    
    Newer versions of git don't like to fast-import "M /path/file" ,
    and that happens when d-i.conf matches w/o a trailing slash. hack a fix

diff --git a/src/repository.cpp b/src/repository.cpp
index a0e5f4c..f24dd98 100644
--- a/src/repository.cpp
+++ b/src/repository.cpp
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ void Repository::Transaction::deleteFile(const QString &path)
 QIODevice *Repository::Transaction::addFile(const QString &path, int mode, qint64 length)
 {
     int mark = ++repository->lastmark;
+    char *p;
 
     if (modifiedFiles.capacity() == 0)
         modifiedFiles.reserve(2048);
@@ -313,7 +314,11 @@ QIODevice *Repository::Transaction::addFile(const QString &path, int mode, qint6
     modifiedFiles.append(" :");
     modifiedFiles.append(QByteArray::number(mark));
     modifiedFiles.append(' ');
-    modifiedFiles.append(path.toUtf8());
+    QByteArray ba = path.toUtf8();
+    p = ba.data();
+    if (p[0] == '/') p++; /* git does not like paths starting with a /, this hack allows d-i.conf to leave off
+			     trailing slashes to catch deleted directories w/o git blowing up JEH */
+    modifiedFiles.append(p);
     modifiedFiles.append("\n");
 
 #ifndef DRY_RUN