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

[Sam Kuper <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>]

On 02/03/2018, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this reproducible for you?

Yes. It seems to occur consistently, given the same input.

> Do you have more details about how I can reproduce it?

Unfortunately, the particular git repo I encountered it on is private,
otherwise I would point you to it.

I haven't attempted to create a MWE. Am I correct that doing so is now
not needed, in the light of Jeff King's email below?


> What arch are you on?  What perl version do you use?  Can you report
> this using "reportbug git"?

All perfectly decent questions. For a modicum of security/privacy, I
would prefer to avoid answering them unless necessary.

Am I right in thinking that these answers are no longer needed, in the
light of Jeff King's email below?



On 02/03/2018, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>   3. Your invocation in particular is a problem because it uses
>      --word-diff, which will not have a one-to-one line correspondence
>      with the bare diff.
>
>      add--interactive handles pretty-printing by running the diff
>      command twice: once with no special options, and once with
>      "--color" and piped through the diffFilter. It assumes that the two
>      match each other line for line, so it shows you the "DISPLAY"
>      variant, but then ultimately applies the "TEXT" variant.
>
> And that last one is the cause of the errors you see:
>
>> Use of uninitialized value $_ in print at
>> /usr/lib/git-core/git-add--interactive line 1371, <STDIN> line 74.
>
> The "DISPLAY" run for your case generates fewer lines than the "TEXT"
> run, and we complain on trying to show those extra lines.