From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Sathyajith Bhat" <sathya@sathyasays.com>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Segfault in git when using git logs
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:31:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqzh3zvce5.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20201102144321.GA3962443@coredump.intra.peff.net
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> That commit causes the line-log to clear the set of pathspecs, but the
> --follow option requires exactly one pathspec (and it even makes sure
> the user gives us one, but that happens before we clear it internally).
> Something like this makes the segfault go away:
>
> diff --git a/line-log.c b/line-log.c
> index 42c5e41f68..f789863928 100644
> --- a/line-log.c
> +++ b/line-log.c
> @@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ static void queue_diffs(struct line_log_data *range,
> clear_pathspec(&opt->pathspec);
> parse_pathspec_from_ranges(&opt->pathspec, range);
> }
> + opt->flags.follow_renames = 0;
> DIFF_QUEUE_CLEAR(&diff_queued_diff);
> diff_tree_oid(parent_tree_oid, tree_oid, "", opt);
> if (opt->detect_rename && diff_might_be_rename()) {
>
> but I'm not clear on how "--follow" and "-L" are supposed to interact. I
> wouldn't expect --follow to do anything at all with line-log (nor for it
> to be useful to specify pathspecs outside of the -L option). So possibly
> this is restoring the behavior prior to that commit, or possibly it's
> just papering over a breakage. ;)
Another option is to catch it as "these options are mutually
exclusive" error early before the control reaches this deep in the
codeflow, I would think, but I suspect that some people may
habitually add the "--follow" option in a context where it does not
make sense, so "--follow is silently ignored when other options that
contradict it is in effect at the same time" is OK by me, too.
I do not know if that is the case offhand, but in the ideal
world, I would imagine
git log -L1,5:hello.c -C -C -- hello.c goodbye.c
git log -L1,5:hello.c -C -C
to notice and show that some of these five lines were copied
when or after hello.c was created, and keep following the
origin of them in goodbye.c, and
git log -L1,5:hello.c -C -C
may do the same or find better match outside goodbye.c for
the origin of these lines and follow them instead, while
git log -L1,5:hello.c -- hello.c
git log -L1,5:hello.c --no-renames
in the same history may say the commit that actually copied
these lines from goodbye.c just added them directly to hello.c
instead.
And to extend the imagination a bit more,
git log -M -L1,5:hello.c
git log -L1,5:hello.c
git log --follow -L1,5:hello.c
in a different history may notice that hello.c was created
wholesale by renaming hola.c and follow the changes to these
five lines down the history. As -M is in effect by default
these days, the first two would be equivalent, and "--follow"
would be a meaningless noiseword in the context of this example
where we are interested only in a single path hello.c in the
end result, but in the ideal world, meaningless noiseword
should become hardless no-op, I would think.
Of course, the above assumes that -L plays well with the
-M/-C/--follow options and pathspec. If not, then "they are
incompatible" would be the more sensible and easy-to-explain
option.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 18:31 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 [this message]
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
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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