From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] sequencer: duplicate the result of resolve_ref_unsafe()
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:45:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <220930.86mtagvmit.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220930140948.80367-6-szeder.dev@gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 30 2022, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> When 'git rebase -i --update-refs' generates the todo list for the
> rebased commit range, an 'update-ref' instruction is inserted for each
> ref that points to one of those commits, except for the rebased branch
> (because at the end of the rebase it will be updated anyway) and any
> refs that are checked out in a worktree; for the latter a "Ref <ref>
> checked out at '<worktree>'" comment is added. One of these comments
> can be missing under some circumstances: if the oldest commit with a
> ref pointing to it has multiple refs pointing to it, and at least one
> of those refs is checked out in a worktree, and one of them (but not
> the first) is checked out in the worktree associated with the last
> directory entry in '.git/worktrees'.
>
> The culprit is the add_decorations_to_list() function, which calls
> resolve_ref_unsafe() to figure out the refname of the rebased branch.
> However, resolve_ref_unsafe() can (and in this case does) return a
> pointer to a static buffer. Alas, add_decorations_to_list() holds on
> that static buffer until the end of the function, using its contents
> to compare refnames with the rebased branch, while it also calls a
> function that invokes refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() internally [1], and
> which overwrites the content of that static buffer, and messes up
> subsequent refname comparisons.
Good catch...
> Use xstrdup_or_null() to keep a copy of resolve_ref_unsafe()'s return
> value for the duration of add_decorations_to_list().
...and this makes sense...
> const struct name_decoration *decoration = get_name_decoration(&commit->object);
> - const char *head_ref = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD",
> + const char *head_ref = xstrdup_or_null(resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD",
...but let's change this to a "char *" then...
> RESOLVE_REF_READING,
> NULL,
> - NULL);
> + NULL));
>
> while (decoration) {
> struct todo_item *item;
> @@ -5965,6 +5965,7 @@ static int add_decorations_to_list(const struct commit *commit,
> decoration = decoration->next;
> }
>
> + free((char *)head_ref);
...so we don't need this cast...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-30 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-30 14:09 [PATCH 0/6] rebase --update-refs: smooth out some rough edges SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] t2407-worktree-heads.sh: remove outdated loop SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] t3404-rebase-interactive: mark a test with REFFILES prereq SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 16:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-10-05 16:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] rebase -i: emphasize that 'update-ref' expects a fully-qualified ref SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] sequencer: avoid empty lines after 'update-ref' instructions SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 17:18 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-10-05 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 5/6] sequencer: duplicate the result of resolve_ref_unsafe() SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 16:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2022-09-30 16:51 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-30 17:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2022-10-09 17:23 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 14:09 ` [PATCH 6/6] sequencer: fail early if invalid ref is given to 'update-ref' instruction SZEDER Gábor
2022-09-30 17:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-09-30 17:29 ` [PATCH 0/6] rebase --update-refs: smooth out some rough edges Derrick Stolee
2022-10-01 16:31 ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-10-01 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-10-05 17:14 ` Junio C Hamano
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