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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Sathyajith Bhat <sathya@sathyasays.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Segfault in git when using git logs
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:21:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201103182102.GA459792@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201103101553.GH24813@szeder.dev>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:15:53AM +0100, SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> > > Now, use git log to show commit logs using command
> > > 
> > >         git log  --follow -L 1,1:hello.log -- hello.log
> 
> While Git should never segfault, no matter what, this is a bogus git
> invocation to begin with: the second sentence in the description of
> 'git log -L' clearly states that "You may not give any pathspec
> limiters", so this command should have errored out from early days,
> but, unfortunately, it was never enforced.  This also means that '-L'
> and '--follow' are incompatible, because while the former forbids any
> pathspecs, the latter requires exactly one; and line-level
> log does its own rename following anyway.

Thanks for confirming. My "I am not clear how these should interact" was
really "this does not make any sense to me" in my head, but I was afraid
that I was missing something. The fact that we document explicitly that
-L should not be combined with pathspecs makes that much more obvious.

> VS Code should be fixed to call 'git log -L 1,1:hello.log' instead,
> without '--follow' and without pathspec.

Agreed.

On our side, I don't think it would be _wrong_ to catch and disallow the
combination. But it may be nicer to them if we continue to quietly
ignore --follow and the pathspec in that case, for working with older
versions. (OTOH, if I understand correctly they're segfaulting every
time VS Code is used with v2.29 now, so they may have to accept it as an
urgent fix anyway).

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-02 13:59 Segfault in git when using git logs Sathyajith Bhat
2020-11-02 14:43 ` Jeff King
2020-11-02 18:31   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-03 10:15   ` SZEDER Gábor
2020-11-03 11:21     ` Christian Couder
2020-11-03 16:10       ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-03 18:21     ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-11-03 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-03 18:57         ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 20:21           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-04 13:31             ` Jeff King
2020-11-04 16:26               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-04 17:54             ` Re*: " Junio C Hamano
2020-11-04 19:41               ` Jeff King
2020-11-04 20:16                 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-04 20:35                   ` [PATCH] log: diagnose -L used with pathspec as an error Junio C Hamano
2020-11-04 21:03                     ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 18:46 ` Segfault in git when using git logs Derrick Stolee
2020-11-03 18:55   ` Sathyajith Bhat
2020-11-03 19:23     ` Jeff King
2020-11-03 20:07       ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-03 21:04         ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-04 15:49           ` Sathyajith Bhat

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