Re: [PATCH 4/6] dir.c::match_pathname(): pay attention to the length of string parameters

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > -       return fnmatch_icase(pattern, name, FNM_PATHNAME) == 0;
> > +       return fnmatch_icase_mem(pattern, patternlen,
> > +                                name, namelen,
> > +                                FNM_PATHNAME) == 0;
> >  }
> 
> I think you (or Junio) should rebase this on maint. Since c41244e
> (included in maint), this call is turned to wildmatch(WM_PATHNAME) and
> WM_PATHNAME is _not_ the same as FNM_PATHNAME for patterns like
> "foo/**/bar". A diff between next and pu shows me that WM_PATHNAME is
> incorrectly converted to FNM_PATHNAME. I hope that is the cause of all
> breakages Junio found out on pu.