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From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul Tan" <pyokagan@gmail.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: [BUG] incorrect line numbers reported in git am
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 11:45:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191002184546.GA22174@generichostname> (raw)

Hello all,

I found a bug where the line numbers in git am are being reported
incorrectly in the case where a patch fails to apply cleanly.

The test case for this is pretty simple:

	$ wget https://public-inbox.org/git/20191001185524.18772-1-newren@gmail.com/raw
	$ git am raw

And the output for this is:

	Applying: dir: special case check for the possibility that pathspec is NULL
	error: corrupt patch at line 87
	Patch failed at 0001 dir: special case check for the possibility that pathspec is NULL
	hint: Use 'git am --show-current-patch' to see the failed patch
	When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
	If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
	To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".

In this case, the path is indeed corrupt. The final hunk header gives 25
lines after instead of 24 lines. As a result, it is erroring out
correctly.

However, the line offsets are off. Line 87, as it reports, is the
following:

	to avoid a segfault.

which is in the middle of the log message. I expect the line to be
reported as something in the range of 198-203, where the end of the hunk
actually is.

Indeed, if you take an 87 line offset from the cutoff "---", we can see
that it gives us line 201, which appears at the end of the corrupt hunk.

So it appears that the bug is a result of the the apply process not
taking into account the number of lines from the mail parsing step.

Thanks,

Denton

             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02 18:45 Denton Liu [this message]
2019-10-02 19:44 ` [BUG] incorrect line numbers reported in git am Junio C Hamano
2019-10-02 20:08   ` Denton Liu
2019-10-02 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-02 20:16   ` Denton Liu
2019-10-03  0:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-03  6:17       ` Duy Nguyen
2019-10-03 22:56         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-04 21:59 ` [PATCH] apply: tell user location of corrupted patch file Denton Liu
2019-10-05  8:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-05 22:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-05 22:51     ` Junio C Hamano

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