Re: [PATCH v3 21/33] merge-recursive: add get_directory_renames()

diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 2f4f85314a..6a0a6d4366 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c

@@ -1384,6 +1384,132 @@ static struct diff_queue_struct *get_diffpairs(struct merge_options *o,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static void get_renamed_dir_portion(const char *old_path, const char *new_path,
+				    char **old_dir, char **new_dir)
+{
+	char *end_of_old, *end_of_new;
+	int old_len, new_len;
+
+	*old_dir = NULL;
+	*new_dir = NULL;
+
+	/* For
+	 *    "a/b/c/d/foo.c" -> "a/b/something-else/d/foo.c"
+	 * the "d/foo.c" part is the same, we just want to know that
+	 *    "a/b/c" was renamed to "a/b/something-else"
+	 * so, for this example, this function returns "a/b/c" in
+	 * *old_dir and "a/b/something-else" in *new_dir.
+	 *
+	 * Also, if the basename of the file changed, we don't care.  We
+	 * want to know which portion of the directory, if any, changed.
+	 */
+	end_of_old = strrchr(old_path, '/');
+	end_of_new = strrchr(new_path, '/');
+
+	if (end_of_old == NULL || end_of_new == NULL)
+		return;
+	while (*--end_of_new == *--end_of_old &&
+	       end_of_old != old_path &&
+	       end_of_new != new_path)
+		; /* Do nothing; all in the while loop */
+	/*
+	 * We've found the first non-matching character in the directory
+	 * paths.  That means the current directory we were comparing
+	 * represents the rename.  Move end_of_old and end_of_new back
+	 * to the full directory name.
+	 */
+	if (*end_of_old == '/')
+		end_of_old++;
+	if (*end_of_old != '/')
+		end_of_new++;
+	end_of_old = strchr(end_of_old, '/');
+	end_of_new = strchr(end_of_new, '/');
+
+	/*
+	 * It may have been the case that old_path and new_path were the same
+	 * directory all along.  Don't claim a rename if they're the same.
+	 */
+	old_len = end_of_old - old_path;
+	new_len = end_of_new - new_path;
+
+	if (old_len != new_len || strncmp(old_path, new_path, old_len)) {
+		*old_dir = strndup(old_path, old_len);
+		*new_dir = strndup(new_path, new_len);