On 2009.03.31 09:11:00 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
quoted text
> And interestingly, the problem doesn't seem to be in
> show_tree/show_recursive, but in match_tree_entry.
> 
> With "git ls-tree HEAD gitweb/git-favicon.png g" we descend into gitweb/
> and at some point we get:
> 
> match = "g"
> base = "gitweb/"
> 
> And we have:
> if (baselen >= matchlen) {
> 	if (strncmp(base, match, matchlen))
> 		continue;
> 	/* The base is a subdirectory of a path which was specified */
> 	return 1;
> }
> 
> So we return 1 there. The code doesn't do what the comment says, so I
> guess we can be pretty sure that the behaviour is not intended.

Yup, it's in match_tree_entry, you get the same thing with git show.
With git.git, you can try with:

git show 4fa535a -- Documentation/git-merge.txt D

I'll try to get a patch done, if noone beats me to it.

Björn
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