From d683a0e00cd4734b4fab704baef1ee76205722be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 23:33:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Git::cat_blob: allow using an empty blob to fix git-svn
 breakage
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Recent "git-svn optimization" series introduced Git::cat_blob() subroutine
whose interface was broken in that it returned the size of the blob but
signalled an error by returning 0.  You can never use an empty blob with
such an interface.

This fixes the interface to return a negative value to signal an error.

Reported by Björn Steinbrink.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-svn.perl | 4 ++--
 perl/Git.pm  | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 37976f2505..3a6eb1cb9d 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -3191,7 +3191,7 @@ sub apply_textdelta {
 	if ($fb->{blob}) {
 		print $base 'link ' if ($fb->{mode_a} == 120000);
 		my $size = $::_repository->cat_blob($fb->{blob}, $base);
-		die "Failed to read object $fb->{blob}" unless $size;
+		die "Failed to read object $fb->{blob}" if ($size < 0);
 
 		if (defined $exp) {
 			seek $base, 0, 0 or croak $!;
@@ -3570,7 +3570,7 @@ sub chg_file {
 		$self->change_file_prop($fbat,'svn:special',undef);
 	}
 	my $size = $::_repository->cat_blob($m->{sha1_b}, $fh);
-	croak "Failed to read object $m->{sha1_b}" unless $size;
+	croak "Failed to read object $m->{sha1_b}" if ($size < 0);
 	$fh->flush == 0 or croak $!;
 	seek $fh, 0, 0 or croak $!;
 
diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
index 6ba8ee5c0d..d05b633b64 100644
--- a/perl/Git.pm
+++ b/perl/Git.pm
@@ -811,12 +811,12 @@ sub cat_blob {
 	my $description = <$in>;
 	if ($description =~ / missing$/) {
 		carp "$sha1 doesn't exist in the repository";
-		return 0;
+		return -1;
 	}
 
 	if ($description !~ /^[0-9a-fA-F]{40} \S+ (\d+)$/) {
 		carp "Unexpected result returned from git cat-file";
-		return 0;
+		return -1;
 	}
 
 	my $size = $1;