Re: [PATCH] git-mv: fully detect 'directory moved into itself'

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 28, 2005, 09:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vbr05xgzp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200511281015.15188.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>

Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:

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> This is a corrected version.
>
> On Monday 28 November 2005 07:54, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>> Hi, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
>> 
>> > +    if (($bad eq "") && ($dst =~ /^$src\//)) {
>> 
>> That should be
>> 
>> > +    if (($bad eq "") && ($dst =~ /^\Q$src\E\//)) {
>> 
>> otherwise you will mistakenly match "foo-bar" with "foo.bar".
>
> Ah, thanks.
> You never end learning.

Why not use $safesrc you already have for this exact purpose?