On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:16:42PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:50:21AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Convert most leaf functions to struct object_id.  Change several
> > > hardcoded numbers to uses of parse_oid_hex.  In doing so, verify that we
> > > when we want two trees, we have exactly two trees.
> > >
> > > Finally, in stdin_diff_commit, avoid accessing the byte after the NUL.
> > > This will be a NUL as well, since the first NUL was a newline we
> > > overwrote.  However, with parse_oid_hex, we no longer need to increment
> > > the pointer directly, and can simply increment it as part of our check
> > > for the space character.
> > 
> > After reading the pre- and post-image twice, I think I convinced
> > myself that this is a faithful conersion and they do the same thing.
> 
> I think this is correct, too (but then, I think it largely comes from
> the patch I wrote the other night. So I did look at it carefully, but
> it's not exactly an independent review).

I did take that part, as well as other parts, from your patch.

I have a test, which I'll send in a minute, that verifies that they do
the same thing.  At first I introduced a segfault, and the test caught
it, so I feel confident that the patch does indeed function as the old
code did.
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