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[PATCH 07/10] wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matching

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 5, 2012, 04:41 UTC
Message-ID
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dowild() does case insensitive matching by lower-casing the text. That means lower case letters in patterns imply case-insensitive matching, but upper case means exact matching.

We do not want that subtlety. Lower case pattern too so iwildmatch() always does what we expect it to do.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 wildmatch.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/wildmatch.c b/wildmatch.c
index e824eb2..c7f7f9f 100644
--- a/wildmatch.c
+++ b/wildmatch.c
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ static int dowild(const uchar *p, const uchar *text,
 	}
 	if (force_lower_case && ISUPPER(t_ch))
 	    t_ch = tolower(t_ch);
+	if (force_lower_case && ISUPPER(p_ch))
+	    p_ch = tolower(p_ch);
 	switch (p_ch) {
 	  case '\\':
 	    /* Literal match with following character.  Note that the test
-- 
1.7.12.1.405.gb727dc9
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  1. 00/10 nd/wildmatch take 2Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  2. 01/10 gitignore: make pattern parsing code a separate functionNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  3. 02/10 attr: avoid strlen() on every matchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  4. 03/10 attr: avoid searching for basename on every matchNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  5. 04/10 attr: more matching optimizations from .gitignoreNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 5, 2012
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 6, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2012
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 6, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2012
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 8, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2012
  13. 05/10 Import wildmatch from rsyncNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  14. Peter KreftingOct 5, 2012
  15. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 5, 2012
  16. 06/10 wildmatch: remove static variable force_lower_caseNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  17. 07/10 wildmatch: fix case-insensitive matchingNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  18. 08/10 Integrate wildmatch to gitNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  19. Thiago FarinaOct 5, 2012
  20. Joachim SchmitzOct 6, 2012
  21. 09/10 Support "**" in .gitignore and .gitattributes patterns using wildmatch()Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012
  22. 10/10 gitignore: forbid "abc**def"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Oct 5, 2012

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