Am 19.04.2013 18:45, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:40:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> John Keeping <j...@keeping.me.uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> +relative_path ()
>>>> +{
>>>> + local target curdir result
>>>> + target=$1
>>>> + curdir=${2-$wt_prefix}
>>>> + curdir=${curdir%/}
>>>> + result=
>>>> +
>>>> + while test -n "$curdir"
>>>> + do
>>>> + case "$target" in
>>>> + "$curdir/"*)
>>>> + target=${target#$curdir/}
>>>> + break
>>>> + ;;
>>>> + esac
>>>
>>> Could $curdir have glob wildcard to throw this part of the logic
>>> off? It is OK to have limitations like "you cannot have a glob
>>> characters in your path to submodule working tree" (at least until
>>> we start rewriting these in C or Perl or Python), but we need to be
>>> aware of them.
>>
>> I think the use of "#" instead of "##" saves us here because even with a
>> wildcard in $curdir the case statement matches literally,
>
> If you have curdir=a*b and target=adropb/c/d/e, the chopping itself
>
> target=${target#$curdir/}
>
> would happily chop "adropb/" from the target, but because the dq
> around "$curdir/"* in the case arm label enforces that target must
> literally match curdir followed by a slash, we do not even come to
> the chomping part.
>
> I still have not convinced myself that it is impossible for somebody
> more clever than I to craft a pair of target and curdir that breaks
> it, though. (target="a*b/c/d", curdir="a*b") is correctly chopped,
> so that is not it.
Why not just replace the six-liner by this one-liner:
target=${target#"$curdir"/}
-- Hannes
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