sparse-checkout: allow one-character directories in cone mode
In 9e6d3e64 (sparse-checkout: detect short patterns, 2020-01-24), a
condition on the minimum length of a cone-mode pattern was introduced.
However, this condition was off-by-one.
If we have a directory with a single character, say "b", then the
command
git sparse-checkout set b
will correctly add the pattern "/b/" to the sparse-checkout file. When
this is interpeted in dir.c, the pattern is "/b" with the
PATTERN_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR flag. This string has length two, which satisfies
our inclusive inequality (<= 2).
The reason for this inequality is that we will start to read the pattern
string character-by-character using three char pointers: prev, cur,
next. In particular, next is set to the current pattern plus two. The
mistake was that next will still be a valid pointer when the pattern
length is two, since the string is null-terminated.
Make this inequality strict so these patterns work.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
index c35cbde..b4c9c32 100755
--- a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
+++ b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
@@ -417,10 +417,20 @@
cat >repo/.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-\EOF &&
/*
!/*/
- /a
+ /
EOF
check_read_tree_errors repo "a" "disabling cone pattern matching"
'
+test_expect_success 'pattern-checks: not too short' '
+ cat >repo/.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-\EOF &&
+ /*
+ !/*/
+ /b/
+ EOF
+ git -C repo read-tree -mu HEAD 2>err &&
+ test_must_be_empty err &&
+ check_files repo a
+'
test_expect_success 'pattern-checks: trailing "*"' '
cat >repo/.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-\EOF &&
