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Re: [PATCH 2/2] builtin git-mv: support moving directories

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JRJuergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de>
Date
Aug 8, 2006, 18:34 UTC
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<17624.55600.423000.61479@lapjr.intranet.kiel.bmiag.de>
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This might have been fixed already (my tree is a couple of days old), but the strcat fails for me, because the alloced memory is not cleared.

Johannes Schindelin writes:
 > +static const char *add_slash(const char *path)
 > +{
 > +	int len = strlen(path);
 > +	if (path[len - 1] != '/') {
 > +		char *with_slash = xmalloc(len + 2);
 > +		memcpy(with_slash, path, len);
 > +		strcat(with_slash + len, "/");
 > +		return with_slash;
 > +	}
 > +	return path;
 > +}

perhaps morph the strcat into a memcopy or append the slash and the NUL manually?

  jr
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  1. 2/2 builtin git-mv: support moving directoriesJohannes Schindelin, Jul 26, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 26, 2006
  3. Juergen RuehleAug 8, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2006
  5. mv: strcat -> strcpy to account for uninitialized memoryJohannes Schindelin, Aug 8, 2006

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