On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 10:10:59PM +0100, Peter Oberndorfer wrote: > >> For me the key to reproduce the problem was to have 2 commits. > >> Adding the file in the root commit it did not work. [1] > > You probably would need to pass "--root" for it to do the diff of the > > initial commit. > > > > The patch below fixes it, but it's terribly inefficient (it just detects > > the situation and reallocates). It would be much better to disable the > > reuse_worktree_file mmap when we populate the filespec, but it is too > > late to pass an option; we may have already populated from an earlier > > diffcore stage. > Hi, > I tested your patch, and i can confirm it fixes the problem for me. > (also on my real world test in msysgit) Thanks for the report. I'd still like to pursue using a regex library that does not require NUL-termination, but I've been distracted by other things. I'm going to hold back my copy-to-a-NUL-buffer patch for now and see if I can get to the regex thing this week. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html