On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:06 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> 
> wrote:
>>> +       len = strlen(path);
>>> +       if (!len || is_dir_sep(path[len - 1]))
>>> +               die(_("'--to' argument '%s' cannot end with a slash"), 
>>> path);
>>
>> What is the purpose of this restriction?
>
> Laziness on my part :) Because the following loop searches backward to
> get the `basename $path`, trailing slash would make it return empty
> base name. I could have just removed the trailing slash here instead
> of dying though. Thanks for catching.

Thanks for the explanation. I thought that that might be the case.

>>> +       for (name = path + len - 1; name > path; name--)
>>> +               if (is_dir_sep(*name)) {
>>> +                       name++;
>>> +                       break;
>>> +               }
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