Re: Bug report: "Use of uninitialized value $_ in print"

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:53:34AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > Because the array is full of "undef". See parse_diff(), which does this:
> >
> >   my @diff = run_cmd_pipe("git", @diff_cmd, "--", $path);
> >   ...
> >   @colored = run_cmd_pipe(@display_cmd);
> >   ...
> >   for (my $i = 0; $i < @diff; $i++) {
> >           ...
> >           push @{$hunk[-1]{TEXT}}, $diff[$i];
> >           push @{$hunk[-1]{DISPLAY}},
> >                (@colored ? $colored[$i] : $diff[$i]);
> >   }
> >
> > If the @colored output is shorter than the normal @diff output, we'll
> > push a bunch of "undef" onto the DISPLAY array (the ternary there is
> > because sometimes @colored is completely empty if the user did not ask
> > for color).
> 
> An obvious sanity check would be to ensure @colored == @diff
> 
>                 push @{$hunk[-1]{DISPLAY}},
>         -            (@colored ? $colored[$i] : $diff[$i]);
>         +            (@colored && @colored == @diff ? $colored[$i] : $diff[$i]);
>          }
> 
> or something like that?

That's probably a reasonable sanity check, but I think we need to abort
and not just have a too-small DISPLAY array. Because later code like the
hunk-splitting is going to assume that there's a 1:1 line
correspondence. We definitely don't want to end up in a situation where
we show one thing but apply another.

-Peff