Previous to commit 5d8f084a5 (pathspec: simpler logic to prefix original
pathspec elements, 2017-01-04), we were always using the computed
`match` variable to perform pathspec matching whenever
`PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN` is set. This is for example useful when passing
the parsed pathspecs to other commands, as the computed `match` may
contain a pathspec relative to the repository root. The commit changed
this logic to only do so when we do have an actual prefix and when
literal pathspecs are deactivated.
But this change may actually break some commands which expect passed
pathspecs to be relative to the repository root. One such case is `git
add --patch`, which now fails when using relative paths from a
subdirectory. For example if executing "git add -p ../foo.c" in a
subdirectory, the `git-add--interactive` command will directly pass
"../foo.c" to `git-ls-files`. As ls-files is executed at the
repository's root, the command will notice that "../foo.c" is outside
the repository and fail.
Fix the issue by again using the computed `match` variable when
`PATHSPEC_PREFIX_ORIGIN` is set and global literal pathspecs are
deactivated. Note that in contrast to previous behavior, we will now
always call `prefix_magic` regardless of whether a prefix is actually
set. But this is the right thing to do: when the `match` variable has
been resolved to the repository's root, it will be set to an empty
string. When passing the empty string directly to other commands, it
will result in a warning regarding deprecated empty pathspecs. By always
adding the prefix magic, we will end up with at least the string
":(prefix:0)" and thus avoid the warning.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
"git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a
list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git
ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see
which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec
language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are
equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This
helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on
some platforms.
* jk/add-i-use-pathspecs:
add--interactive: do not expand pathspecs with ls-files
The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that
match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached
via the gitattributes mechanism.
* bw/attr-pathspec:
pathspec: allow escaped query values
pathspec: allow querying for attributes
From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse"
lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another
project, and where the root level of the working tree of that
project (i.e. your superproject) is.
* sb/rev-parse-show-superproject-root:
rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree
Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the
older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
possible.
* jk/interop-test:
t/interop: add test of old clients against modern git-daemon
t: add an interoperability test harness
The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few
configuration variables to make it easier to use.
* cc/split-index-config: (22 commits)
Documentation/git-update-index: explain splitIndex.*
Documentation/config: add splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire
read-cache: use freshen_shared_index() in read_index_from()
read-cache: refactor read_index_from()
t1700: test shared index file expiration
read-cache: unlink old sharedindex files
config: add git_config_get_expiry() from gc.c
read-cache: touch shared index files when used
sha1_file: make check_and_freshen_file() non static
Documentation/config: add splitIndex.maxPercentChange
t1700: add tests for splitIndex.maxPercentChange
read-cache: regenerate shared index if necessary
config: add git_config_get_max_percent_split_change()
Documentation/git-update-index: talk about core.splitIndex config var
Documentation/config: add information for core.splitIndex
t1700: add tests for core.splitIndex
update-index: warn in case of split-index incoherency
read-cache: add and then use tweak_split_index()
split-index: add {add,remove}_split_index() functions
config: add git_config_get_split_index()
...
"git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
output, but a recent update started ignoring them; this fixes it
before the breakage reaches to any released version.
* kn/ref-filter-branch-list:
branch: honor --abbrev/--no-abbrev in --list mode
"git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
* dp/filter-branch-prune-empty:
p7000: add test for filter-branch with --prune-empty
filter-branch: fix --prune-empty on parentless commits
t7003: ensure --prune-empty removes entire branch when applicable
t7003: ensure --prune-empty can prune root commit
The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
so ancient.
* jt/perf-updates:
t/perf: add fallback for pre-bin-wrappers versions of git
t/perf: use $MODERN_GIT for all repo-copying steps
t/perf: export variable used in other blocks
"git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other
side does not allow such an request, failed without much
explanation.
* mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object:
fetch-pack: add specific error for fetching an unadvertised object
fetch_refs_via_pack: call report_unmatched_refs
fetch-pack: move code to report unmatched refs to a function
"git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
disambiguating.
* jk/interpret-branch-name:
checkout: restrict @-expansions when finding branch
strbuf_check_ref_format(): expand only local branches
branch: restrict @-expansions when deleting
t3204: test git-branch @-expansion corner cases
interpret_branch_name: allow callers to restrict expansions
strbuf_branchname: add docstring
strbuf_branchname: drop return value
interpret_branch_name: move docstring to header file
interpret_branch_name(): handle auto-namelen for @{-1}
A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
* ab/cond-skip-tests:
gitweb tests: skip tests when we don't have Time::HiRes
gitweb tests: change confusing "skip_all" phrasing
cvs tests: skip tests that call "cvs commit" when running as root
When we want to get the list of modified files, we first
expand any user-provided pathspecs with "ls-files", and then
feed the resulting list of paths as arguments to
"diff-index" and "diff-files". If your pathspec expands into
a large number of paths, you may run into one of two
problems:
1. The OS may complain about the size of the argument
list, and refuse to run. For example:
$ (ulimit -s 128 && git add -p drivers)
Can't exec "git": Argument list too long at .../git-add--interactive line 177.
Died at .../git-add--interactive line 177.
That's on the linux.git repository, which has about 20K
files in the "drivers" directory (none of them modified
in this case). The "ulimit -s" trick is necessary to
show the problem on Linux even for such a gigantic set
of paths. Other operating systems have much smaller
limits (e.g., a real-world case was seen with only 5K
files on OS X).
2. Even when it does work, it's really slow. The pathspec
code is not optimized for huge numbers of paths. Here's
the same case without the ulimit:
$ time git add -p drivers
No changes.
real 0m16.559s
user 0m53.140s
sys 0m0.220s
We can improve this by skipping "ls-files" completely, and
just feeding the original pathspecs to the diff commands.
This solution was discussed in 2010:
http://public-inbox.org/git/20100105041438.GB12574@coredump.intra.peff.net/
but at the time the diff code's pathspecs were more
primitive than those used by ls-files (e.g., they did not
support globs). Making the change would have caused a
user-visible regression, so we didn't.
Since then, the pathspec code has been unified, and the diff
commands natively understand pathspecs like '*.c'.
This patch implements that solution. That skips the
argument-list limits, and the result runs much faster:
$ time git add -p drivers
No changes.
real 0m0.149s
user 0m0.116s
sys 0m0.080s
There are two new tests. The first just exercises the
globbing behavior to confirm that we are not causing a
regression there. The second checks the actual argument
behavior using GIT_TRACE. We _could_ do it with the "ulimit
-s" trick, as above. But that would mean the test could only
run where "ulimit -s" works. And tests of that sort are
expensive, because we have to come up with enough files to
actually bust the limit (we can't just shrink the "128" down
infinitely, since it is also the in-program stack size).
Finally, two caveats and possibilities for future work:
a. This fixes one argument-list expansion, but there may
be others. In fact, it's very likely that if you run
"git add -i" and select a large number of modified
files that the script would try to feed them all to a
single git command.
In practice this is probably fine. The real issue here
is that the argument list was growing with the _total_
number of files, not the number of modified or selected
files.
b. If the repository contains filenames with literal wildcard
characters (e.g., "foo*"), the original code expanded
them via "ls-files" and then fed those wildcard names
to "diff-index", which would have treated them as
wildcards. This was a bug, which is now fixed (though
unless you really go through some contortions with
":(literal)", it's likely that your original pathspec
would match whatever the accidentally-expanded wildcard
would anyway).
So this takes us one step closer to working correctly
with files whose names contain wildcard characters, but
it's likely that others remain (e.g., if "git add -i"
feeds the selected paths to "git add").
Reported-by: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Reported-by: Mislav Marohnić <mislav.marohnic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In our own .gitattributes file we have attributes such as:
*.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space
When querying for attributes we want to be able to ask for the exact
value, i.e.
git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)
should work, but the commas are used in the attr magic to introduce
the next attr, such that this query currently fails with
fatal: Invalid pathspec magic 'trail' in ':(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)'
This change allows escaping characters by a backslash, such that the query
git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)
will match all path that have the value "indent,trail,space" for the
whitespace attribute. To accomplish this, we need to modify two places.
First `parse_long_magic` needs to not stop early upon seeing a comma or
closing paren that is escaped. As a second step we need to remove any
escaping from the attr value.
Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The pathspec mechanism is extended via the new
":(attr:eol=input)pattern/to/match" syntax to filter paths so that it
requires paths to not just match the given pattern but also have the
specified attrs attached for them to be chosen.
Based on a patch by Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
conversion).
* jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix:
diff: do not short-cut CHECK_SIZE_ONLY check in diff_populate_filespec()
The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
has been fixed.
* ax/line-log-range-merge-fix:
line-log.c: prevent crash during union of too many ranges
Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
* js/realpath-pathdup-fix:
real_pathdup(): fix callsites that wanted it to die on error
t1501: demonstrate NULL pointer access with invalid GIT_WORK_TREE
The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
"add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
fixed.
* jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt:
add--interactive: fix missing file prompt for patch mode with "-i"
This test just checks that old clients can clone and fetch
from a newer git-daemon. The opposite should also be true,
but it's hard to test ancient versions of git-daemon because
they lack basic options like "--listen".
Note that we have to make a slight tweak to the
lib-git-daemon helper from the regular tests, so that it
starts the daemon with our correct git.a version.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current test suite is good at letting you test a
particular version of Git. But it's not very good at letting
you test _two_ versions and seeing how they interact (e.g.,
one cloning from the other).
This commit adds a test harness that will build two
arbitrary versions of git and make it easy to call them from
inside your tests. See the README and the example script for
details.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git stash save" takes a pathspec so that the local changes can be
stashed away only partially.
* tg/stash-push:
stash: allow pathspecs in the no verb form
stash: use stash_push for no verb form
stash: teach 'push' (and 'create_stash') to honor pathspec
stash: refactor stash_create
stash: add test for the create command line arguments
stash: introduce push verb
When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
* jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect:
http: attempt updating base URL only if no error
"Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
* jh/send-email-one-cc:
send-email: only allow one address per body tag
user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently
error out, but didn't.
* jk/ident-empty:
ident: do not ignore empty config name/email
ident: reject all-crud ident name
ident: handle NULL email when complaining of empty name
ident: mark error messages for translation
The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
been fixed.
* jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2:
config: use git_config_parse_key() in git_config_parse_parameter()
config: move a few helper functions up
When the "branch --list" command was converted to use the --format
facility from the ref-filter API, we forgot to honor the --abbrev
setting in the default output format and instead used a hardcoded
"7".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some situations it is useful to know if the given repository
is a submodule of another repository.
Add the flag --show-superproject-working-tree to git-rev-parse
to make it easy to find out if there is a superproject. When no
superproject exists, the output will be empty.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 4ac9006f83 (real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and
strbuf_realpath, 2016-12-12), we changed the xstrdup(real_path())
pattern to use real_pathdup() directly.
The problem with this change is that real_path() calls
strbuf_realpath() with die_on_error = 1 while real_pathdup() calls
it with die_on_error = 0. Meaning that in cases where real_path()
causes Git to die() with an error message, real_pathdup() is silent
and returns NULL instead.
The callers, however, are ill-prepared for that change, as they expect
the return value to be non-NULL (and otherwise the function died
with an appropriate error message).
Fix this by extending real_pathdup()'s signature to accept the
die_on_error flag and simply pass it through to strbuf_realpath(),
and then adjust all callers after a careful audit whether they would
handle NULLs well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When GIT_WORK_TREE does not specify a valid path, we should error
out, instead of crashing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This way a share index file will not be garbage collected if
we still read from an index it is based from.
As we need to read the current index before creating a new
one, the tests have to be adjusted, so that we don't expect
an old shared index file to be deleted right away when we
create a new one.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, the git_commit_non_empty_tree function would always pass any
commit with no parents to git-commit-tree, regardless of whether the
tree was nonempty. The new commit would then be recorded in the
filter-branch revision map, and subsequent commits which leave the tree
untouched would be correctly filtered.
With this change, parentless commits with an empty tree are correctly
pruned, and an empty file is recorded in the revision map, signifying
that it was rewritten to "no commits." This works naturally with the
parent mapping for subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Devin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sanity check before changing the logic in git_commit_non_empty_tree.
Signed-off-by: Devin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
New test to expose a bug in filter-branch whereby the root commit is
never pruned, even though its tree is empty and --prune-empty is given.
The setup isn't exactly pretty, but I couldn't think of a simpler way to
create a parallel commit graph sans the first commit.
Signed-off-by: Devin J. Pohly <djpohly@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The existing implementation of range_set_union does not correctly
reallocate memory, leading to a heap overflow when it attempts to union
more than 24 separate line ranges.
For struct range_set *out to grow correctly it must have out->nr set to
the current size of the buffer when it is passed to range_set_grow.
However, the existing implementation of range_set_union only updates
out->nr at the end of the function, meaning that it is always zero
before this. This results in range_set_grow never growing the buffer, as
well as some of the union logic itself being incorrect as !out->nr is
always true.
The reason why 24 is the limit is that the first allocation of size 1
ends up allocating a buffer of size 24 (due to the call to alloc_nr in
ALLOC_GROW). This goes some way to explain why this hasn't been
caught before.
Fix the problem by correctly updating out->nr after reallocating the
range_set. As this results in out->nr containing the same value as the
variable o, replace o with out->nr as well.
Finally, add a new test to help prevent the problem reoccurring in the
future. Thanks to Vegard Nossum for writing the test.
Signed-off-by: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It's tempting to say:
./run v1.0.0 HEAD
to see how we've sped up Git over the years. Unfortunately,
this doesn't quite work because versions of Git prior to
v1.7.0 lack bin-wrappers, so our "run" script doesn't
correctly put them in the PATH.
Worse, it means we silently find whatever other "git" is in
the PATH, and produce test results that have no bearing on
what we asked for.
Let's fallback to the main git directory when bin-wrappers
isn't present. Many modern perf scripts won't run with such
an antique version of Git, of course, but at least those
failures are detected and reported (and you're free to write
a limited perf script that works across many versions).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 1a0962dee (t/perf: fix regression in testing older
versions of git, 2016-06-22), we point "$MODERN_GIT" to a
copy of git that matches the t/perf script itself, and which
can be used for tasks outside of the actual timings. This is
needed because the setup done by perf scripts keeps moving
forward in time, and may use features that the older
versions of git we are testing do not have.
That commit used $MODERN_GIT to fix a case where we relied
on the relatively recent --git-path option. But if you go
back further still, there are more problems.
Since 7501b5921 (perf: make the tests work in worktrees,
2016-05-13), we use "git -C", but versions of git older than
44e1e4d67 (git: run in a directory given with -C option,
2013-09-09) don't know about "-C". So testing an old version
of git with a new version of t/perf will fail the setup
step.
We can fix this by using $MODERN_GIT during the setup;
there's no need to use the antique version, since it doesn't
affect the timings. Likewise, we'll adjust the "init"
invocation; antique versions of git called this "init-db".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In p0001, a variable was created in a test_expect_success block to be
used in later test_perf blocks, but was not exported. This caused the
variable to not appear in those blocks (this can be verified by writing
'test -n "$commit"' in those blocks), resulting in a slightly different
invocation than what was intended. Export that variable.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Enhance filter_refs (which decides whether a request for an unadvertised
object should be sent to the server) to record a new match status on the
"struct ref" when a request is not allowed, and have
report_unmatched_refs check for this status and print a special error
message, "Server does not allow request for unadvertised object".
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch" currently doesn't bother to check that it got all refs it
sought, because the common case of requesting a nonexistent ref triggers
a die() in get_fetch_map. However, there's at least one case that
slipped through: "git fetch REMOTE SHA1" if the server doesn't allow
requests for unadvertised objects. Make fetch_refs_via_pack (which is
on the "git fetch" code path) call report_unmatched_refs so that we at
least get an error message in that case.
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prepare to reuse this code in transport.c for "git fetch".
While we're here, internationalize the existing error message.
Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we parse "git checkout $NAME", we try to interpret
$NAME as a local branch-name. If it is, then we point HEAD
to that branch. Otherwise, we detach the HEAD at whatever
commit $NAME points to.
We do the interpretation by calling strbuf_branchname(), and
then blindly sticking "refs/heads/" on the front. This leads
to nonsense results when expansions like "@{upstream}" or
"@" point to something besides a local branch. We end up
with a local branch name like "refs/heads/origin/master" or
"refs/heads/HEAD".
Normally this has no user-visible effect because those
branches don't exist, and so we fallback to feeding the
result to get_sha1(), which resolves them correctly.
But as the new test in t3204 shows, there are corner cases
where the effect is observable, and we check out the wrong
local branch rather than detaching to the correct one.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This function asks strbuf_branchname() to expand any @-marks
in the branchname, and then we blindly stick refs/heads/ in
front of the result. This is obviously nonsense if the
expansion is "HEAD" or a ref in refs/remotes/.
The most obvious end-user effect is that creating or
renaming a branch with an expansion may have confusing
results (e.g., creating refs/heads/origin/master from
"@{upstream}" when the operation should be disallowed).
We can fix this by telling strbuf_branchname() that we are
only interested in local expansions. Any unexpanded bits are
then fed to check_ref_format(), which either disallows them
(in the case of "@{upstream}") or lets them through
("refs/heads/@" is technically valid, if a bit silly).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We use strbuf_branchname() to expand the branch name from
the command line, so you can delete the branch given by
@{-1}, for example. However, we allow other nonsense like
"@", and we do not respect our "-r" flag (so we may end up
deleting an oddly-named local ref instead of a remote one).
We can fix this by passing the appropriate "allowed" flag to
strbuf_branchname().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git-branch feeds the branch names from the command line to
strbuf_branchname(), but we do not yet tell that function
which kinds of expansions should be allowed. Let's create a
set of tests that cover both the allowed and disallowed
cases.
That shows off some breakages where we currently create or
delete the wrong ref (and will make sure that we do not
break any cases that _should_ be working when we do add more
restrictions).
Note that we check branch creation and deletion, but do not
bother with renames. Those follow the same code path as
creation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The interpret_branch_name() function takes a ptr/len pair
for the name, but you can pass "0" for "namelen", which will
cause it to check the length with strlen().
However, before we do that auto-namelen magic, we call
interpret_nth_prior_checkout(), which gets fed the bogus
"0". This was broken by 8cd4249c4 (interpret_branch_name:
always respect "namelen" parameter, 2014-01-15). Though to
be fair to that commit, it was broken in the _opposite_
direction before, where we would always treat "name" as a
string even if a length was passed.
You can see the bug with "git log -g @{-1}". That code path
always passes "0", and without this patch it cannot figure
out which branch's reflog to show.
We can fix it by a small reordering of the code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Callers of diff_populate_filespec() can choose to ask only for the
size of the blob without grabbing the blob data, and the function,
after running lstat() when the filespec points at a working tree
file, returns by copying the value in size field of the stat
structure into the size field of the filespec when this is the case.
However, this short-cut cannot be taken if the contents from the
path needs to go through convert_to_git(), whose resulting real blob
data may be different from what is in the working tree file.
As "git diff --quiet" compares the .size fields of filespec
structures to skip content comparison, this bug manifests as a
false "there are differences" for a file that needs eol conversion,
for example.
Reported-by: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
Helped-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
