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git-mv: succeed even if source is a prefix of destination
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As noted by Fredrik Kuivinen, without this patch, git-mv fails on

	git-mv README README-renamed

because "README" is a prefix of "README-renamed".

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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dscho authored and Junio C Hamano committed Aug 16, 2006
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion builtin-mv.c
Expand Up @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)

/* Checking */
for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
int length;
const char *bad = NULL;

if (show_only)
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}

if (!bad &&
!strncmp(destination[i], source[i], strlen(source[i])))
(length = strlen(source[i])) >= 0 &&
!strncmp(destination[i], source[i], length) &&
(destination[i][length] == 0 || destination[i][length] == '/'))
bad = "can not move directory into itself";

if (!bad && cache_name_pos(source[i], strlen(source[i])) < 0)
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions t/t7001-mv.sh
Expand Up @@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ test_expect_success \
git-diff-tree -r -M --name-status HEAD^ HEAD | \
grep -E "^R100.+path0/README.+path2/README"'

test_expect_success \
'succeed when source is a prefix of destination' \
'git-mv path2/COPYING path2/COPYING-renamed'

test_expect_success \
'moving whole subdirectory into subdirectory' \
'git-mv path2 path1'
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