Subject: Re: [PATCH] mv: prevent mismatched data when ignoring errors.

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:45:59 -0700

"brian m. carlson" <[email-masked]> writes:

> We shrink the source and destination arrays, but not the modes or
> submodule_gitfile arrays, resulting in potentially mismatched data.  Shrink
> all the arrays at the same time to prevent this.
>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  builtin/mv.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/mv.c b/builtin/mv.c
> index f99c91e..b20cd95 100644
> --- a/builtin/mv.c
> +++ b/builtin/mv.c
> @@ -230,6 +230,11 @@ int cmd_mv(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  					memmove(destination + i,
>  						destination + i + 1,
>  						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
> +					memmove(modes + i, modes + i + 1,
> +						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
> +					memmove(submodule_gitfile + i,
> +						submodule_gitfile + i + 1,
> +						(argc - i) * sizeof(char *));
>  					i--;
>  				}
>  			} else

Thanks.  Neither this nor John's seems to describe the user-visible
way to trigger the symptom.  Can we have tests for them?