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[PATCH] git-mv: special case destination "."

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 18, 2006, 10:42 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.63.0608181241200.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To
<20060818072328.GA5255@c165.ib.student.liu.se>

Since the normalized basename of "." is "", the check for directory failed erroneously.

Noticed by Fredrik Kuivinen.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
	> Subject: Re: Another git-mv bug
	... and another fix.
	On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
	> In a Git repository:
	> 
	>     $ git mv templates/info--exclude .
	>     fatal: renaming templates/info--exclude failed: No such file or directory
 builtin-mv.c  |    5 ++++-
 t/t7001-mv.sh |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-mv.c b/builtin-mv.c
index c0c8764..b2ecc26 100644
--- a/builtin-mv.c
+++ b/builtin-mv.c
@@ -114,7 +114,10 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, 
 	modes = xcalloc(count, sizeof(enum update_mode));
 	dest_path = copy_pathspec(prefix, argv + argc - 1, 1, 0);
 
-	if (!lstat(dest_path[0], &st) &&
+	if (dest_path[0][0] == '\0')
+		/* special case: "." was normalized to "" */
+		destination = copy_pathspec(dest_path[0], argv + i, count, 1);
+	else if (!lstat(dest_path[0], &st) &&
 			S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
 		dest_path[0] = add_slash(dest_path[0]);
 		destination = copy_pathspec(dest_path[0], argv + i, count, 1);
diff --git a/t/t7001-mv.sh b/t/t7001-mv.sh
index e5e0bb9..b7fcdb3 100755
--- a/t/t7001-mv.sh
+++ b/t/t7001-mv.sh
@@ -82,4 +82,8 @@ test_expect_failure \
     'do not move directory over existing directory' \
     'mkdir path0 && mkdir path0/path2 && git-mv path2 path0'
 
+test_expect_success \
+    'move into "."' \
+    'git-mv path1/path2/ .'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.4.2.ge0502-dirty
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  2. git-mv: special case destination "."Johannes Schindelin, Aug 18, 2006

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