# [PATCH] git-config --rename-section could rename wrong section

1 messages from 2007-02-04 to 2007-02-04. Participants: Pavel Roskin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/6654

## Pavel Roskin, 2007-02-04 03:01

Subject: [PATCH] git-config --rename-section could rename wrong section
Message-ID: <20070204030104.26499.77905.stgit@dv.roinet.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070204030104.26499.77905.stgit%40dv.roinet.com

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The "git-config --rename-section" implementation would match sections
that are substrings of the section name to be renamed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
---

 config.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index c08c668..d821071 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ int git_config_rename_section(const char *old_name, const char *new_name)
 				if (buf[i] != old_name[j++])
 					break;
 			}
-			if (buf[i] == ']') {
+			if (buf[i] == ']' && old_name[j] == 0) {
 				/* old_name matches */
 				ret++;
 				store.baselen = strlen(new_name);

```