From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:40:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] dir.c::match_basename(): pay attention to the length of string parameters
Message-ID: <20130328224027.GA9911@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130328214728.GB10936@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 05:47:28PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 
> The function takes two counted strings (<basename, basenamelen> and
> <pattern, patternlen>) as parameters, together with prefix (the
> length of the prefix in pattern that is to be matched literally
> without globbing against the basename) and EXC_* flags that tells it
> how to match the pattern against the basename.
> 
> However, it did not pay attention to the length of these counted
> strings.  Update them to do the following:
> 
>  * When the entire pattern is to be matched literally, the pattern
>    matches the basename only when the lengths of them are the same,
>    and they match up to that length.

Hrm. Though the tip of this series passes all tests, this one actually
breaks bisectability. What happens is that the existing code passes:

  path=foo/
  pathlen=4

  pattern=foo/
  patternlen=3

match_basename is happy to compare "foo/" to "foo/" and realize they're
equal. With this change, we compare "foo" to "foo/" and do not match. It
isn't until the later patch where you start passing pathlen=3 that it
works again.

I wonder if it is worth reordering the series to put the path_matches
fix first.

-Peff