Re: Do not let lstree output recursively when a directory whose name is a prefix of the others is given in the path list.

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sep 9, 2010, 06:04 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqzkvr5u73.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <1284010826-81989-1-git-send-email-davi.reis@gmail.com>

davi.reis@gmail.com writes:

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> Here is how to reproduce the bug:
>
> git init
> mkdir prefix && touch prefix/a && git add prefix/a
> mkdir prefixdir && touch prefixdir/b && git add prefixdir/b
> git commit -a -m "If -r is not given, ls-tree should not show files in subdirs."
> git ls-tree --name-only HEAD prefix  # works as expected
> git ls-tree --name-only HEAD prefixdir  # works as expected
> git ls-tree --name-only HEAD prefix prefixdir  # shows file, not dir

That's so close to a real test-case... You should incorporate this in your patch (e.g. in t/t3101-ls-tree-dirname.sh), to make sure such bug never happens again.

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