Re: [PATCH v3 21/25] checkout: support checking out into a new working directory

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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +       len = strlen(path);
>> +       if (!len || is_dir_sep(path[len - 1]))
>> +               die(_("'--to' argument '%s' cannot end with a slash"), path);
>
> What is the purpose of this restriction?

Laziness on my part :) Because the following loop searches backward to
get the `basename $path`, trailing slash would make it return empty
base name. I could have just removed the trailing slash here instead
of dying though. Thanks for catching.

>
>> +       for (name = path + len - 1; name > path; name--)
>> +               if (is_dir_sep(*name)) {
>> +                       name++;
>> +                       break;
>> +               }



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Duy
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