From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
rrt@sc3d.org, john@szakmeister.net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ls-files: fix pathspec display on error
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:01:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipqiknjh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110729130330.GA31941@toss.lan> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:03:30 +0200")
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:
> The following sequence of commands reveals an issue with error
> reporting of relative paths:
>
> $ mkdir sub
> $ cd sub
> $ git ls-files --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
> error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
> $ git commit --error-unmatch ../bbbbb
> error: pathspec 'b' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>
> This bug is visible only if the normalized path (i.e., the relative
> path from the repository root) is longer than the prefix.
> Otherwise, the code skips over the normalized path and reads from
> an unused memory location which still contains a leftover of the
> original command line argument.
>
> So instead, use the existing facilities to deal with relative paths
> correctly.
Sounds sane; tests?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 20:25 Possible bug Reuben Thomas
2011-07-25 7:42 ` [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths Michael J Gruber
2011-07-25 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-25 19:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-27 8:22 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-07-27 9:45 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-07-27 9:53 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-07-27 10:00 ` Reuben Thomas
2011-07-27 10:19 ` John Szakmeister
2011-07-27 11:56 ` [RFC/PATCH] ls-files: fix pathspec display on error Michael J Gruber
2011-07-29 13:03 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 0:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-08-01 18:03 ` [PATCH] test ls-files with relative paths Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-01 21:19 ` [PATCH v2] ls-files: fix pathspec display on error Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-28 7:38 ` [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths Erik Faye-Lund
2011-07-27 15:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-27 15:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-07-27 15:50 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-07-29 13:35 ` [PATCH] " Clemens Buchacher
2011-07-30 16:45 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-07-30 17:00 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-07-30 17:04 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-07-30 17:13 ` [PATCH v2] " Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-01 0:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02 21:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-03 19:28 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-08-03 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-04 10:41 ` renaming pathspec_prefix (was: Re: [PATCH v2] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths) Clemens Buchacher
2011-09-04 10:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] remove prefix argument from pathspec_prefix Clemens Buchacher
2011-09-06 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-06 19:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-08 7:12 ` Clemens Buchacher
2011-09-08 16:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-04 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] consolidate pathspec_prefix and common_prefix Clemens Buchacher
2011-09-04 10:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] rename pathspec_prefix -> common_prefix and move to dir.[ch] Clemens Buchacher
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