From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Paul Ganssle <paul@ganssle.io>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase --autosquash: fix a potential segfault
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 16:09:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200504220916.GF45250@syl.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504213326.GA31037@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 05:33:26PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:40:04PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
>
> > When rearranging the todo list so that the fixups/squashes are reordered
> > just after the commits they intend to fix up, we use two arrays to
> > maintain that list: `next` and `tail`.
> >
> > The idea is that `next[i]`, if set to a non-negative value, contains the
> > index of the item that should be rearranged just after the `i`th item.
> >
> > To avoid having to walk the entire `next` chain when appending another
> > fixup/squash, we also store the end of the `next` chain in `last[i]`.
>
> s/last/tail/, I think? (and below)
>
> > The good news is that it is easy to fix this: we can detect the
> > situation by looking at `last[i2]` (which will be `-1` if `i2` is
> > actually in the middle of a fixup chain), and in that case we simply
> > need to squeeze the current item into the middle of the `next` chain,
> > without touching `last` (i.e. leaving the end index of the fixup chain
> > alone).
>
> OK, good. I definitely had figured out how to detect the case, but
> wasn't quite sure how to manipulate next.
>
> But your fix here makes sense:
>
> > if (next[i2] < 0)
> > next[i2] = i;
> > - else
> > + else if (tail[i2] >= 0)
> > next[tail[i2]] = i;
> > + else {
> > + /*
> > + * i2 refers to a fixup commit in the middle of
> > + * a fixup chain
> > + */
> > + next[i] = next[i2];
> > + next[i2] = i;
> > + continue;
> > + }
>
> I do have one question, though. What happens if we add a second
> fixup-of-a-fixup?
Thanks for asking this question, I was a little curious about it, too.
> We'd see its "next" slot filled, but now pointing to the first
> fixup-of-a-fixup. And we'd add ourselves at the front of that list. So I
> think:
>
> 1234 foo
> 5678 !fixup foo
> abcd !fixup 5678
> dbaf !fixup 5678
>
> would end up reordering abcd and dbaf (putting dbaf first), wouldn't it?
>
> But when I tested it doesn't seem to:
>
> git init
> git commit -m base --allow-empty
> git commit --squash HEAD -m 'this is the first squash' --allow-empty
> s=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
> git commit -m "squash! $s" -m 'this is the second squash' --allow-empty
> git commit -m "squash! $s" -m 'this is the third squash' --allow-empty
> git rebase -ki --autosquash --root
>
> So I think there's something I don't quite understand about how the
> chain of "next" works. If you can enlighten me, I'd be grateful.
Ditto.
> But your patch does seem to work as advertised. It might be worth adding
> the double-squash-of-squash to the test.
Yes, I think that this is a good, worthwhile addition to the patch.
Sorry Johannes for suggesting that you do more work on an already-great
patch. No good deed goes unpunished, I guess ;).
> -Peff
Thanks,
Taylor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 20:40 [PATCH] rebase --autosquash: fix a potential segfault Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-05-04 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-04 21:33 ` Jeff King
2020-05-04 22:09 ` Taylor Blau [this message]
2020-05-05 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-06 21:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-07 19:17 ` Jeff King
2020-05-08 23:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-05 22:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-05-09 19:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-05-06 15:12 ` [PATCH] " Andrei Rybak
2020-05-07 14:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-08 16:43 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-08 16:57 ` Andrei Rybak
2020-05-08 17:21 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-18 16:47 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-18 3:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-05-25 17:29 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] Clarify some of the fixup! documenation Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: fixup/squash: clarify use of <oid-hash> in subject line Philip Oakley
2020-05-27 17:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-29 11:41 ` Philip Oakley
2020-05-25 21:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: fixup/squash: remove ellipsis marks, use <line> for clarify Philip Oakley
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