From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:08:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [regression?] trailing slash required in .gitattributes
Message-ID: <7vzjxv3uef.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130322222438.GA13207@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   if (pathlen && pathname[pathlen-1] == '/')
>           pathlen--;
>
> would work. But it seems that match_basename, despite taking the length
> of all of the strings we pass it, will happily use NUL-terminated
> functions like strcmp or fnmatch. Converting the former to check lengths
> should be pretty straightforward. But there is no version of fnmatch
> that does what we want. I wonder if we using wildmatch can get around
> this limitation.

Or save away pathname[pathlen], temporarily NUL terminate and call
these functions?