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Re: [PATCH] allow pathspec to end with a slash

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 31, 2005, 15:32 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.58.0505310827330.1876@ppc970.osdl.org>
Junio, 
 pathspec is still subtly broken.

Just removing the slash at the end is not the right thing to do, since that means that

	git-diff-files drivers/char/

will trigger on a _file_ "drivers/char", even though the spec makes it unambiguous that the user only wants to see stuff under that directory.

Again, git-diff-tree gets this right (not to say that it always did - I had to fix "interesting()" several times, exactly because it's not that simple).

		Linus
Next: Junio C Hamano
Message 1 of 12 in “Re: [PATCH] allow pathspec to end with a slash”
  1. Linus TorvaldsMay 31, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2005
  3. 1/2 diff: consolidate test helper script pieces.Junio C Hamano, May 31, 2005
  4. 2/2 diff: Fix trailing slash handling.Junio C Hamano, May 31, 2005
  5. ls-tree: remove trailing slashes properly.Junio C Hamano, May 31, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 31, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2005
  8. ls-tree: handle trailing slashes in the pathspec properly.Junio C Hamano, May 31, 2005
  9. Linus TorvaldsMay 31, 2005
  10. ls-tree: handle trailing slashes in the pathspec properly.Junio C Hamano, Jun 1, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 1, 2005
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 31, 2005

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