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Junio C Hamano
1655ac884a Merge branch 'ah/fsmonitor-daemon-usage-non-l10n' into maint-2.38
Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation.

* ah/fsmonitor-daemon-usage-non-l10n:
  fsmonitor--daemon: don't translate literal commands
2022-10-25 17:11:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0d5d92906a Merge branch 'jk/clone-allow-bare-and-o-together' into maint-2.38
"git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
options used together without a good reason.

* jk/clone-allow-bare-and-o-together:
  clone: allow "--bare" with "-o"
2022-10-25 17:11:33 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
665d7e08b4 Merge branch 'jk/remote-rename-without-fetch-refspec' into maint-2.38
"git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
refspec, which has been corrected.

* jk/remote-rename-without-fetch-refspec:
  remote: handle rename of remote without fetch refspec
2022-10-25 17:11:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
457f863fb4 Merge branch 'vd/fix-unaligned-read-index-v4' into maint-2.38
The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory
accesses, which has been corrected.

* vd/fix-unaligned-read-index-v4:
  read-cache: avoid misaligned reads in index v4
2022-10-25 17:11:32 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
c72f2febae Merge branch 'ab/coding-guidelines-c99' into maint-2.38
Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.

* ab/coding-guidelines-c99:
  CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
  CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
  CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
  CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
  CodingGuidelines: update for C99
2022-10-25 17:11:32 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
438c2f859b CodingGuidelines: recommend against unportable C99 struct syntax
Per 33665d98e6 (reftable: make assignments portable to AIX xlc
v12.01, 2022-03-28) forms like ".a.b = *c" can be replaced by using
".a = { .b = *c }" instead.

We'll probably allow these sooner than later, but since the workaround
is trivial let's note it among the C99 features we'd like to hold off
on for now.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-11 08:55:01 -07:00
René Scharfe
e3733b646d archive: deduplicate verbose printing
94bc671a1f (Add directory pattern matching to attributes, 2012-12-08)
moved the code for adding the trailing slash to names of directories and
submodules up.  This left both branches of the if statement starting
with the same conditional fprintf call.  Deduplicate it.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-11 08:35:10 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d7d850e2b9 CodingGuidelines: mention C99 features we can't use
The C99 section of the CodingGuidelines is a good overview of what we
can use, but is sorely lacking in what we can't use. Something that
comes up occasionally is the portability of %z.

Per [1] we couldn't use it for the longest time due to MSVC not
supporting it, but nowadays by requiring C99 we rely on the MSVC
version that does, but we can't use it yet because a C library that
MinGW uses doesn't support it.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/a67e0fd8-4a14-16c9-9b57-3430440ef93c@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 13:41:12 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
82dd01d81b CodingGuidelines: allow declaring variables in for loops
Since 44ba10d671 (revision: use C99 declaration of variable in for()
loop, 2021-11-14) released with v2.35.0 we've had a variable declared
with in a for loop.

Since then we've had inadvertent follow-ups to that with at least
cb2607759e (merge-ort: store more specific conflict information,
2022-06-18) released with v2.38.0.

As November 2022 is within the window of this upcoming release,
let's update the guideline to allow this.  We can have the promised
"revisit" discussion while this patch cooks, and drop it if it turns
out that it is still premature, which is not expected to happen at
this moment.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 13:41:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
442c27dde7 CodingGuidelines: mention dynamic C99 initializer elements
The first use of variables in initializer elements appears to have
been 2b6854c863 (Cleanup variables in cat-file, 2007-04-21) released
with v1.5.2.

Some of those caused portability issues, and e.g. that "cat-file" use
was changed in 66dbfd55e3 (Rewrite dynamic structure initializations
to runtime assignment, 2010-05-14) which went out with v1.7.2.

But curiously 66dbfd55e3 missed some of them, e.g. an archive.c use
added in d5f53d6d6f (archive: complain about path specs that don't
match anything, 2009-12-12), and another one in merge-index.c (later
builtin/merge-index.c) in 0077138cd9 (Simplify some instances of
run_command() by using run_command_v_opt()., 2009-06-08).

As far as I can tell there's been no point since 2b6854c863 in 2007
where a compiler that didn't support this has been able to compile
git. Presumably 66dbfd55e3 was an attempt to make headway with wider
portability that ultimately wasn't completed.

In any case, we are thoroughly reliant on this syntax at this point,
so let's update the guidelines, see
https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqy1tunjgp.fsf@gitster.g/ for the
initial discussion.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 13:41:11 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
e88a2d02dc CodingGuidelines: update for C99
Since 7bc341e21b (git-compat-util: add a test balloon for C99
support, 2021-12-01) we've had a hard dependency on C99, but the prose
in CodingGuidelines was written under the assumption that we were
using C89 with a few C99 features.

As the updated prose notes we'd still like to hold off on novel C99
features, but let's make it clear that we target that C version, and
then enumerate new C99 features that are safe to use.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 13:41:11 -07:00
Phillip Wood
a677d3c416 t3435: remove redundant test case
rebase --preserve-merges no longer exists so there is no point in
carrying this failing test case.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 11:18:18 -07:00
Jeff Hostetler
54795d37d9 config.mak.dev: disable suggest braces error on old clang versions
Add the "-Wno-missing-braces" option when building with an old version
of clang to suppress the "suggest braces around initialization" error
in developer mode.

For example, using an old version of clang gives the following errors
(when in DEVELOPER=1 mode):

$ make builtin/merge-file.o
    CC builtin/merge-file.o
builtin/merge-file.c:29:23: error: suggest braces around initialization \
			    of subobject [-Werror,-Wmissing-braces]
        mmfile_t mmfs[3] = { 0 };
                             ^
                             {}
builtin/merge-file.c:31:20: error: suggest braces around initialization \
			    of subobject [-Werror,-Wmissing-braces]
        xmparam_t xmp = { 0 };
                          ^
                          {}
2 errors generated.

This example compiles without error/warning with updated versions of
clang.  Since this is an obsolete error, use the -Wno-missing-braces
option to silence the warning when using an older compiler.  This
avoids the need to update the code to use "{{0}}" style
initializations.

Upstream clang version 8 has the problem.  It was fixed in version 9.

The version of clang distributed by Apple with XCode has its own
unique set of version numbers.  Apple clang version 11 has the
problem.  It was fixed in version 12.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-10 11:15:31 -07:00
Jeff King
f7669676d0 dir: use fspathncmp() in pl_hashmap_cmp()
Call fspathncmp() instead of open-coding it.  This shortens the code and
makes it less repetitive.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-08 22:09:03 -07:00
Rubén Justo
bcfc82bd48 branch: description for non-existent branch errors
When the repository does not yet have commits, some errors describe that
there is no branch:

    $ git init -b first

    $ git branch --edit-description first
    error: No branch named 'first'.

    $ git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream
    fatal: branch 'first' does not exist

    $ git branch -c second
    error: refname refs/heads/first not found
    fatal: Branch copy failed

That "first" branch is unborn but to say it doesn't exists is confusing.

Options "-c" (copy) and "-m" (rename) show the same error when the
origin branch doesn't exists:

    $ git branch -c non-existent-branch second
    error: refname refs/heads/non-existent-branch not found
    fatal: Branch copy failed

    $ git branch -m non-existent-branch second
    error: refname refs/heads/non-existent-branch not found
    fatal: Branch rename failed

Note that "--edit-description" without an explicit argument is already
considering the _empty repository_ circumstance in its error.  Also note
that "-m" on the initial branch it is an allowed operation.

Make the error descriptions for those branch operations with unborn or
non-existent branches, more informative.

This is the result of the change:

    $ git init -b first

    $ git branch --edit-description first
    error: No commit on branch 'first' yet.

    $ git branch --set-upstream-to=upstream
    fatal: No commit on branch 'first' yet.

    $ git branch -c second
    fatal: No commit on branch 'first' yet.

    $ git branch [-c/-m] non-existent-branch second
    fatal: No branch named 'non-existent-branch'.

Signed-off-by: Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-07 20:59:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
3991bb73dd SubmittingPatches: use usual capitalization in the log message body
Update the description of the summary section to clarify that the
"do not capitalize" rule applies only the word after the "<area>:"
prefix of the title and nowhere else.  This hopefully will prevent
folks from writing their proposed log message in all lowercase.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-07 14:59:25 -07:00
Derrick Stolee
7190b7ebf9 bundle-uri: fix technical doc issues
Two documentation issues exist in the technical docs for the bundle URI
feature.

First, there is an extraneous "the" across a linebreak, making the
nonsensical phrase "the bundle the list" which should just be "the
bundle list".

Secondly, the asciidoc update treats the string "`have`s" as starting a
"<code>" block, but the second tick is interpreted as an apostrophe
instead of a closing "</code>" tag. This causes entire sentences to be
formatted as code until the next one comes along. Simply adding a space
here does not work properly as the rendered HTML keeps that space.
Instead, restructure the sentence slightly to avoid using a plural,
allowing the HTML to render correctly.

Reported-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-07 11:00:21 -07:00
René Scharfe
246526d019 bisect--helper: plug strvec leak
The strvec "argv" is used to build a command for run_command_v_opt(),
but never freed.  Use a constant string array instead, which doesn't
require any cleanup.

Suggested-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-07 10:21:18 -07:00
Taylor Blau
d5b41391a4 Git 2.38.1
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 20:00:33 -04:00
Taylor Blau
f64d4ca8d6 Sync with 2.37.4
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 20:00:04 -04:00
Taylor Blau
83d5e3341b Git 2.37.4
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 19:58:33 -04:00
Taylor Blau
f2798aa404 Sync with 2.36.3
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 19:58:16 -04:00
Taylor Blau
9a167cb786 t7527: prepare for changing protocol.file.allow
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t7527 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 19:57:52 -04:00
Taylor Blau
fcdaa211e6 Git 2.36.3
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:45:10 -04:00
Taylor Blau
58612f82b6 Sync with 2.35.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:44:44 -04:00
Taylor Blau
868154bb1c Git 2.35.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:44:02 -04:00
Taylor Blau
ac8a1db867 Sync with 2.34.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:43:37 -04:00
Taylor Blau
be85cfc4db Git 2.34.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:43:08 -04:00
Taylor Blau
478a426f14 Sync with 2.33.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:42:55 -04:00
Taylor Blau
7800e1dccf Git 2.33.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:42:27 -04:00
Taylor Blau
3957f3c84e Sync with 2.32.4
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:42:02 -04:00
Taylor Blau
af778cd9be Git 2.32.4
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:41:15 -04:00
Taylor Blau
9cbd2827c5 Sync with 2.31.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:40:44 -04:00
Taylor Blau
ecf9b4a443 Git 2.31.5
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:39:26 -04:00
Taylor Blau
122512967e Sync with 2.30.6
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:39:15 -04:00
Taylor Blau
abd4d67ab0 Git 2.30.6
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-06 17:38:16 -04:00
Jeff King
69c5f17f11 attr: drop DEBUG_ATTR code
Since its inception in d0bfd026a8 (Add basic infrastructure to assign
attributes to paths, 2007-04-12), the attribute code carries a little
bit of debug code that is conditionally compiled only when DEBUG_ATTR is
set. But since you have to know about it and make a special build of Git
to use it, it's not clear that it's helping anyone (and there are very
few mentions of it on the list over the years).

Meanwhile, it causes slight headaches. Since it's not built as part of a
regular compile, it's subject to bitrot. E.g., this was dealt with in
712efb1a42 (attr: make it build with DEBUG_ATTR again, 2013-01-15), and
it currently fails to build with DEVELOPER=1 since e810e06357 (attr:
tighten const correctness with git_attr and match_attr, 2017-01-27).

And it causes confusion with -Wunused-parameter; the "what" parameter of
fill_one() is unused in a normal build, but needed in a debug build.

Let's just get rid of this code (and the now-useless parameter).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-06 09:59:17 -07:00
Jeff King
116761ba9c commit: avoid writing to global in option callback
The callback function for --trailer writes directly to the global
trailer_args and ignores opt->value completely. This is OK, since that's
where we expect to find the value. But it does mean the option
declaration isn't as clear. E.g., we have:

    OPT_BOOL(0, "reset-author", &renew_authorship, ...),
    OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "trailer", NULL, ..., opt_pass_trailer)

In the first one we can see where the result will be stored, but in the
second, we get only NULL, and you have to go read the callback.

Let's pass &trailer_args, and use it in the callback. As a bonus, this
silences a -Wunused-parameter warning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-06 09:58:06 -07:00
Jeff King
7faba18a9a multi-pack-index: avoid writing to global in option callback
We declare the --object-dir option like:

  OPT_CALLBACK(0, "object-dir", &opts.object_dir, ...);

but the pointer to opts.object_dir is completely unused. Instead, the
callback writes directly to a global. Which fortunately happens to be
opts.object_dir. So everything works as expected, but it's unnecessarily
confusing.

Instead, let's have the callback write to the option value pointer that
has been passed in. This also quiets a -Wunused-parameter warning (since
we don't otherwise look at "opt").

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-06 09:56:51 -07:00
Jeff King
6823c19888 test-submodule: inline resolve_relative_url() function
The resolve_relative_url() function takes argc and argv parameters; it
then reads up to 3 elements of argv without looking at argc at all. At
first glance, this seems like a bug. But it has only one caller,
cmd__submodule_resolve_relative_url(), which does confirm that argc is
3.

The main reason this is a separate function is that it was moved from
library code in 96a28a9bc6 (submodule--helper: move
"resolve-relative-url-test" to a test-tool, 2022-09-01).

We can make this code simpler and more obviously safe by just inlining
the function in its caller. As a bonus, this silences a
-Wunused-parameter warning.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-06 09:56:28 -07:00
René Scharfe
7a2d8ea47e t/lib-httpd: pass LANG and LC_ALL to Apache
t5411 starts a web server with no explicit language setting, so it uses
the system default.  Ten of its tests expect it to return error messages
containing the prefix "fatal: ", emitted by die().  This prefix can be
localized since a1fd2cf8cd (i18n: mark message helpers prefix for
translation, 2022-06-21), however.  As a result these ten tests break
for me on a system with LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" because the web server sends
localized messages with "Schwerwiegend: " instead of "fatal: ".

Fix these tests by passing LANG and LC_ALL to the web server, which are
set to "C" by t/test-lib.sh, to get untranslated messages on both sides.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-06 09:16:26 -07:00
Alejandro R. Sedeño
7c07f36ad2 git-compat-util.h: GCC deprecated message arg only in GCC 4.5+
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html says

  The deprecated attribute now takes an optional string argument, for
  example, __attribute__((deprecated("text string"))), that will be
  printed together with the deprecation warning.

While GCC 4.5 is already 12 years old, git checks for even older
versions in places. Let's not needlessly break older compilers when
a small and simple fix is readily available.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro R Sedeño <asedeno@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-05 19:09:59 -07:00
Đoàn Trần Công Danh
ebb6c16607 Makefile: clarify runtime relative gitexecdir
"git" built with RUNTIME_PREFIX flag turned on could figure out
gitexecdir and other paths as relative to "git" executable.

However, in the section specifies gitexecdir, RUNTIME_PREFIX wasn't
mentioned, thus users may wrongly assume that "git" always locates
gitexecdir as relative path to the executable.

Let's clarify that only "git" built with RUNTIME_PREFIX will locate
gitexecdir as relative path.

Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-05 19:06:01 -07:00
Taylor Blau
d9fcaeece2 t5537: prepare for changing protocol.file.allow
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t5537 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-05 20:19:15 -04:00
Taylor Blau
541607d934 t3206: prepare for changing protocol.file.allow
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t3206 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-10-05 20:19:08 -04:00
René Scharfe
b004c90282 gc: simplify maintenance_task_pack_refs()
Pass a constant string array directly to run_command_v_opt() instead of
copying it into a strvec first.  This shortens the code and avoids heap
allocations.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-05 12:46:27 -07:00
Noah Betzen
edbf9a2e20 mergetool.txt: typofix 'overwriten' -> 'overwritten'
Signed-off-by: Noah Betzen <noah@nezteb.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-05 12:25:56 -07:00
Phillip Wood
36fb0d07d8 ssh signing: return an error when signature cannot be read
If the signature file cannot be read we print an error message but do
not return an error to the caller. In practice it seems unlikely that
the file would be unreadable if the call to ssh-keygen succeeds.

The unlink_or_warn() call is moved to the end of the function so that
we always try and remove the signature file. This isn't strictly
necessary at the moment but it protects us against any extra code
being added between trying to read the signature file and the cleanup
at the end of the function in the future. unlink_or_warn() only prints
a warning if it exists and cannot be removed.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-05 10:21:52 -07:00
Jeff King
45350aeb11 sequencer: detect author name errors in read_author_script()
As we parse the author-script file, we check for missing or duplicate
lines for GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, etc. But after reading the whole file, our
final error conditional checks "date_i" twice and "name_i" not at all.
This not only leads to us failing to abort, but we may do an
out-of-bounds read on the string_list array.

The bug goes back to 442c36bd08 (am: improve author-script error
reporting, 2018-10-31), though the code was soon after moved to this
spot by bcd33ec25f (add read_author_script() to libgit, 2018-10-31).
It was presumably just a typo in 442c36bd08.

We'll add test coverage for all the error cases here, though only the
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME ones fail (even in a vanilla build they segfault
consistently, but certainly with SANITIZE=address).

Reported-by: Michael V. Scovetta <michael.scovetta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-03 11:05:53 -07:00
Phillip Wood
3ef1494685 mailinfo -b: fix an out of bounds access
To remove bracketed strings containing "PATCH" from the subject line
cleanup_subject() scans the subject for the opening bracket using an
offset from the beginning of the line. It then searches for the
closing bracket with strchr(). To calculate the length of the
bracketed string it unfortunately adds rather than subtracts the
offset from the result of strchr(). This leads to an out of bounds
access in memmem() when looking to see if the brackets contain
"PATCH".

We have tests that trigger this bug that were added in ae52d57f0b
(t5100: add some more mailinfo tests, 2017-05-31). The commit message
mentions that they are marked test_expect_failure as they trigger an
assertion in strbuf_splice(). While it is reassuring that
strbuf_splice() detects the problem and dies in retrospect that should
perhaps have warranted a little more investigation. The bug was
introduced by 17635fc900 (mailinfo: -b option keeps [bracketed]
strings that is not a [PATCH] marker, 2009-07-15). I think the reason
it has survived so long is that '-b' is not a popular option and
without it the offset is always zero.

This was found by the address sanitizer while I was cleaning up the
test_todo idea in [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/db558292-2783-3270-4824-43757822a389@gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-10-03 09:05:07 -07:00