Re: [bug report] git-am applying maildir patches in reverse

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 09:44:39AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> > +	return *a - *b;
> 
> You should always cast to unsigned char when determining the order of
> characters, to be consistent with strcmp/memcmp.

Thanks, I hadn't heard that advice before, but it makes obvious sense.
Junio, do you want to squash this on top?

diff --git a/builtin/mailsplit.c b/builtin/mailsplit.c
index 1ddbff4..06296d4 100644
--- a/builtin/mailsplit.c
+++ b/builtin/mailsplit.c
@@ -143,12 +143,12 @@ static int maildir_filename_cmp(const char *a, const char *b)
 		}
 		else {
 			if (*a != *b)
-				return *a - *b;
+				return (unsigned char)*a - (unsigned char)*b;
 			a++;
 			b++;
 		}
 	}
-	return *a - *b;
+	return (unsigned char)*a - (unsigned char)*b;
 }
 
 static int split_maildir(const char *maildir, const char *dir,

-Peff