"Trailing \ in regex" error when using vcs flag

[cglong]

Describe the bug
Running cloc --vcs=git .\src\ in PowerShell yields this error message:

Trailing \ in regex m/^.\src/ at script/cloc-1.96.pl line 5542, line 1.

Running the same command without the vcs flag works as expected.

cloc; OS; OS version

• cloc version: 1.96.1
• If running the cloc source, Perl version:
• OS (eg Linux, Windows, macOS, etc): Windows
• OS version: 11 Version 22H2

To Reproduce

1. Type cloc --vcs=git
2. Begin typing a directory name, then hit Tab to allow autocomplete to populate the full directory name
3. Observe that PowerShell automatically prepends the directory name with .\ and appends \ at the end
4. Try to execute the command and observe the above error message

Expected result
cloc should run as expected.

Additional context
N/A

[AlDanial]

Give this one a try; works for me in PowerShell.

[AlDanial]

Hmmm, by "this one" I meant the lastest on master, https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc/blob/master/cloc

[cglong]

Thank you for taking care of this so quickly! 🙂 It looks like this fixed the bug in this issue, but now I'm seeing a different one. Let me know if you'd like me to file a new issue for this:

❯ perl cloc --vcs=git src
      35 text files.
      35 unique files.
       0 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.97  T=1.63 s (21.4 files/s, 1534.2 lines/s)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language                          files          blank        comment           code
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# snip...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:                                 35            235            191           2082
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

❯ perl cloc --vcs=git .\src\
       0 text files.
       0 unique files.
       0 files ignored.

[AlDanial]

PowerShell isn't doing cloc any favors with the ".\" prefix. Anyway try the latest on master.

[cglong]

Yes it worked perfectly! Thanks so much for your help looking into this 😄