On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 02:10:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > > The issue bisects to 94bc671 (Add directory pattern matching to > > attributes, 2012-12-08). That commit actually tests not only that > > "subdir/" matches, but also that just "subdir" does not match. > [...] > So I think the regression is accidental. And we would want tests like > this on top (which currently fail): > [...] I'm having trouble figuring out the right solution for this. The problem is in path_matches, which used to receive just the unadorned pathname, and now receives "path/" for directories. It now looks like this: > static int path_matches(const char *pathname, int pathlen, > const char *basename, > const struct pattern *pat, > const char *base, int baselen) > { > const char *pattern = pat->pattern; > int prefix = pat->nowildcardlen; > > if ((pat->flags & EXC_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR) && > ((!pathlen) || (pathname[pathlen-1] != '/'))) > return 0; This first stanza checks that a pattern like "foo/" must be matched by a real directory. Which is fine; that's the point of adding the "/" to the pattern. > if (pat->flags & EXC_FLAG_NODIR) { > return match_basename(basename, > pathlen - (basename - pathname), > pattern, prefix, > pat->patternlen, pat->flags); > } > return match_pathname(pathname, pathlen, > base, baselen, > pattern, prefix, pat->patternlen, pat->flags); > } But then here we'll end up feeding "foo/" to be compared with "foo", which we don't want. For a pattern "foo", we want to match _either_ "foo/" or "foo". So you'd think something like: 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. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html