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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Sathyajith Bhat" <sathya@sathyasays.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Segfault in git when using git logs
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:57:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201103185711.GA461461@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq361qs31a.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:34:09AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > 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).
> 
> So something like this won't harm VS Code more than we currently do,
> while telling users what is wrong with their command line?

Yeah, I was wondering if we'd want the patch you sent, or if we should
turn those die() calls into warning() and disable the flags up front.

> We may still want the "silently disable follow" at low-level
> protection, but that does not give feedback why the end-user option
> is silently ignored, so...

I'd be just as happy to leave it out, if we think it isn't triggerable.
The segfault would let people know we missed a spot. ;)

> diff --git c/builtin/log.c w/builtin/log.c
> index 9f939e6cdf..8811084f02 100644
> --- c/builtin/log.c
> +++ w/builtin/log.c
> @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ static void cmd_log_init_finish(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
>  	if (argc > 1)
>  		die(_("unrecognized argument: %s"), argv[1]);
>  
> +	if (rev->line_level_traverse) {
> +		if (rev->diffopt.filter)
> +			die(_("-L<range>:<file> cannot be used with pathspec"));

Should this be checking rev->diffopt.pathspec.nr?

I could well believe that --diff-filter=A does not work with "-L"
either, but that is a separate story.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-03 18:57 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
2020-11-03 18:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-03 18:57         ` Jeff King [this message]
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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