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[RFC PATCH 2/7] dir.c: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_item

From
Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2018, 17:34 UTC
Message-ID
<20180405173446.32372-3-newren@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20180405173446.32372-1-newren@gmail.com>

For a pathspec like 'foo/bar' comparing against a path named "foo/", namelen will be 4, and match[namelen] will be 'b'. The correct location of the directory separator is namelen-1.

The reason the code worked anyway was that the following code immediately checked whether the first matchlen characters matched (which they do) and then bailed and return MATCHED_RECURSIVELY anyway since wildmatch doesn't have the ability to check if "name" can be matched as a directory (or prefix) against the pathspec.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
 dir.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 19212129f0..c915a69385 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static int match_pathspec_item(const struct pathspec_item *item, int prefix,
 	if (flags & DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE) {
 		/* name is a literal prefix of the pathspec */
 		if ((namelen < matchlen) &&
-		    (match[namelen] == '/') &&
+		    (match[namelen-1] == '/') &&
 		    !ps_strncmp(item, match, name, namelen))
 			return MATCHED_RECURSIVELY;
 
-- 
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Message 12 of 17 in “Fix `git clean` with pathspecs”
  1. 0/7 Fix `git clean` with pathspecsElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  2. 7/7 If we do not want globs to recurse into subdirs without -d...Elijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  3. 6/7 dir: If our pathspec might match files under a dir, recurse into itElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  4. 4/7 dir: Directories should be checked for matching pathspecs tooElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  5. Jeff KingApr 5, 2018
  6. Elijah NewrenApr 5, 2018
  7. Jeff KingApr 5, 2018
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2018
  9. 3/7 t7300: Add some testcases showing failure to clean specified pathspecsElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  10. 5/7 dir: Make the DO_MATCH_SUBMODULE code reusable for a non-submodule caseElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  11. 1/7 dir.c: Fix typo in commentElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  12. 2/7 dir.c: fix off-by-one error in match_pathspec_itemElijah Newren, Apr 5, 2018
  13. Jeff KingApr 5, 2018
  14. Elijah NewrenApr 5, 2018
  15. Jeff KingApr 5, 2018
  16. Elijah NewrenApr 5, 2018
  17. Jeff KingApr 6, 2018

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