Re: [PATCH] git-mv: succeed even if source is a prefix of destination

> > 
> > It looks like we need some kind of path normalization before we do
> > those tests.
> 
> I kind of hoped it was not necessary to do this, since get_pathspec() does 
> a rudimentary version of it (BTW git-mv.perl got it wrong: it substituted 
> "./" by "", which would fail for a directory name like "endsWithADot.").
> 
> It was a little more involved:
> 
> -- 8< --
> [PATCH] git-mv: add more path normalization
> 
> We already use the normalization from get_pathspec(), but now we also
> remove a trailing slash. So,
> 
> 	git mv some_path/ into_some_path/
> 
> works now.
> 
> Also, move the "can not move directory into itself" test before the
> subdirectory expansion.
>