The search for the end of the slashes is part of the update of the path variable for the next iteration as opposed to an update of the slash variable. So iterate using path rather than slash. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- cache-tree.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/cache-tree.c b/cache-tree.c index 17db9f9..7f8d74d 100644 --- a/cache-tree.c +++ b/cache-tree.c @@ -563,9 +563,10 @@ static struct cache_tree *cache_tree_find(struct cache_tree *it, const char *pat if (!sub) return NULL; it = sub->cache_tree; - while (*slash == '/') - slash++; + path = slash; + while (*path == '/') + path++; } return it; } -- 1.9.0 -- 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