From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:52:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix off by one error in prep_exclude.
Message-ID: <7vodb6wtix.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080128003404.GA18276@lintop>

Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com> writes:

> Nope the problem Johannes Sixt was having was that he mistakenly ran
>
> git clean -n /*foo
>
> Now that isn't what he meant to do, but I figured it might be possible
> that someone has their whole filesystem in a git repository, or maybe
> is using some sort of chroot on their repository.  Your malformed
> paths guess is probably much more likely to occur.

That is not a user error from the syntax point of view (although
it might be from the semantics point of view).  I think the
caller of the excluded() function (that is probably somewhere in
builtin-clean.c -- I did not check) is responsible for not
supplying such a path to the called function.