Re: [PATCH] mv: prevent mismatched data when ignoring errors.

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:56:03PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 07:21:39PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
> > We shrink the source and destination arrays, but not the modes or
> > submodule_gitfile arrays, resulting in potentially mismatched data.  Shrink
> > all the arrays at the same time to prevent this.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  builtin/mv.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
> > index f99c91e..b20cd95 100644
> > --- a/builtin/mv.c
> > +++ b/builtin/mv.c
> > @@ -230,6 +230,11 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >  					memmove(destination + i,
> >  						destination + i + 1,
> >  						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
> > +					memmove(modes + i, modes + i + 1,
> > +						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
> > +					memmove(submodule_gitfile + i,
> > +						submodule_gitfile + i + 1,
> > +						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
> 
> I haven't looked that closely, but would it be crazy to suggest that
> these arrays all be squashed into one array-of-struct? It would be less
> error prone and perhaps more readable.

I was thinking of doing exactly that, but the way internal_copy_pathspec
is written, I'd need to use offsetof to have it write to the right
structure members.  That's a bit more gross than I wanted, but I'll
probably implement it at some point during the upcoming week.

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