Duplicate the merge entry right away and work with that instead of modifying the entry we got and duplicating it only at the end of the function. Then mark that pointer const to document that we don't modify the referenced cache_entry. This change is safe because all existing merge functions call merged_entry just before returning (or not at all), i.e. they don't care about changes to the referenced cache_entry after the call. unpack_nondirectories and unpack_index_entry, which call the merge functions through call_unpack_fn, aren't interested in such changes neither. The change complicates merged_entry a bit because we have to free the copy if we error out, but allows callers to pass a const pointer. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- unpack-trees.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/unpack-trees.c b/unpack-trees.c index e8b4cc1..2fecef8 100644 --- a/unpack-trees.c +++ b/unpack-trees.c @@ -1466,10 +1466,12 @@ static int verify_absent_sparse(struct cache_entry *ce, return verify_absent_1(ce, orphaned_error, o); } -static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, - struct unpack_trees_options *o) +static int merged_entry(const struct cache_entry *ce, + struct cache_entry *old, + struct unpack_trees_options *o) { int update = CE_UPDATE; + struct cache_entry *merge = dup_entry(ce); if (!old) { /* @@ -1487,8 +1489,11 @@ static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, update |= CE_ADDED; merge->ce_flags |= CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE; - if (verify_absent(merge, ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_UNTRACKED_OVERWRITTEN, o)) + if (verify_absent(merge, + ERROR_WOULD_LOSE_UNTRACKED_OVERWRITTEN, o)) { + free(merge); return -1; + } invalidate_ce_path(merge, o); } else if (!(old->ce_flags & CE_CONFLICTED)) { /* @@ -1502,8 +1507,10 @@ static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, copy_cache_entry(merge, old); update = 0; } else { - if (verify_uptodate(old, o)) + if (verify_uptodate(old, o)) { + free(merge); return -1; + } /* Migrate old flags over */ update |= old->ce_flags & (CE_SKIP_WORKTREE | CE_NEW_SKIP_WORKTREE); invalidate_ce_path(old, o); @@ -1516,7 +1523,7 @@ static int merged_entry(struct cache_entry *merge, struct cache_entry *old, invalidate_ce_path(old, o); } - add_entry(o, merge, update, CE_STAGEMASK); + do_add_entry(o, merge, update, CE_STAGEMASK); return 1; } -- 1.8.3 -- 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