Hi Elijah,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Elijah Newren wrote:
> diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
> index 2f4f85314a..6a0a6d4366 100644
> --- a/merge-recursive.c
> +++ b/merge-recursive.c
> @@ -1384,6 +1384,132 @@ static struct diff_queue_struct *get_diffpairs(struct
> merge_options *o,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static void get_renamed_dir_portion(const char *old_path, const char
> *new_path,
> + char **old_dir, char **new_dir)
> +{
> + char *end_of_old, *end_of_new;
> + int old_len, new_len;
> +
> + *old_dir = NULL;
> + *new_dir = NULL;
> +
> + /* For
> + * "a/b/c/d/foo.c" -> "a/b/something-else/d/foo.c"
> + * the "d/foo.c" part is the same, we just want to know that
> + * "a/b/c" was renamed to "a/b/something-else"
> + * so, for this example, this function returns "a/b/c" in
> + * *old_dir and "a/b/something-else" in *new_dir.
> + *
> + * Also, if the basename of the file changed, we don't care. We
> + * want to know which portion of the directory, if any, changed.
> + */
> + end_of_old = strrchr(old_path, '/');
> + end_of_new = strrchr(new_path, '/');
> +
> + if (end_of_old == NULL || end_of_new == NULL)
> + return;
> + while (*--end_of_new == *--end_of_old &&
> + end_of_old != old_path &&
> + end_of_new != new_path)
> + ; /* Do nothing; all in the while loop */
> + /*
> + * We've found the first non-matching character in the directory
> + * paths. That means the current directory we were comparing
> + * represents the rename. Move end_of_old and end_of_new back
> + * to the full directory name.
> + */
> + if (*end_of_old == '/')
> + end_of_old++;
> + if (*end_of_old != '/')
> + end_of_new++;
> + end_of_old = strchr(end_of_old, '/');
> + end_of_new = strchr(end_of_new, '/');
> +
> + /*
> + * It may have been the case that old_path and new_path were the same
> + * directory all along. Don't claim a rename if they're the same.
> + */
> + old_len = end_of_old - old_path;
> + new_len = end_of_new - new_path;
> +
> + if (old_len != new_len || strncmp(old_path, new_path, old_len)) {
> + *old_dir = strndup(old_path, old_len);
> + *new_dir = strndup(new_path, new_len);
These two callers of strndup() are the only ones in Git's code base now.
It is also causing a compile error on Windows.
Any reason you did not use xstrndup() here?
Ciao,
Dscho
