Introduce a method that allows us to check if one dir_entry corresponds
to a path which contains the path corresponding to another dir_entry.
---
dir.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 6bd0350e9..25cb9eadf 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -1852,6 +1852,14 @@ static int cmp_name(const void *p1, const void *p2)
return name_compare(e1->name, e1->len, e2->name, e2->len);
}
+// check if *out lexically contains *in
+static int check_contains(const struct dir_entry *out, const struct dir_entry
*in)
+{
+ return (out->len < in->len) &&
+ (out->name[out->len - 1] == '/') &&
+ !memcmp(out->name, in->name, out->len);
+}
+
static int treat_leading_path(struct dir_struct *dir,
const char *path, int len,
const struct pathspec *pathspec)
--
2.12.2
