tree aebeeb6579a6afb5bad61534e42e53d9064f4d2f
parent ef07659926f64d70e8cb41025c3d7456eecb962e
author Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> 1582229226 +0000
committer Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 1582238616 -0800

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>