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Re: [PATCH] Fix git-init-db creating crap directories (zeroth try)

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2005, 03:27 UTC
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Petr Baudis wrote:
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>>But if len is the index of the '/', then you're not.
> 
> But fortunately len is not the index of the '/', len-1 is. len is the length
> of the leading path fragment including the trailing slash.
>

Then you'd need len-1 both inside the memcpy() and the assignment, of course.

	-hpa
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