Re: [PATCH] git-mv: succeed even if source is a prefix of destination

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:44:02AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

quoted

It looks like we need some kind of path normalization before we do
those tests.

I kind of hoped it was not necessary to do this, since get_pathspec() does 
a rudimentary version of it (BTW git-mv.perl got it wrong: it substituted 
"./" by "", which would fail for a directory name like "endsWithADot.").

It was a little more involved:

-- 8< --
[PATCH] git-mv: add more path normalization

We already use the normalization from get_pathspec(), but now we also
remove a trailing slash. So,

	git mv some_path/ into_some_path/

works now.

Also, move the "can not move directory into itself" test before the
subdirectory expansion.

It works as expected now. Thanks!

- Fredrik