Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:35:56PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> I tried to fump the whole history of qemu with format-patch. >> It crashes both with v2.0.0-rc2-21-g6087111 >> and with git 1.8.3.1: >> >> ~/opt/libexec/git-core/git-format-patch --follow -o patches/all >> e63c3dc74bfb90e4522d075d0d5a7600c5145745.. > > You can't use "--follow" without specifying a single pathspec. Running > "git log --follow" notices and blocks this, but format-patch doesn't > (and segfaults later when the follow code assumes there is a pathspec). > > I think we need: Looks sensible. Intrestingly enough, this dates all the way back to the original 750f7b66 (Finally implement "git log --follow", 2007-06-19). Re-reading the log message of that commit was amusing for other reasons, by the way (the most interesting part comes after "One thing to look out for:" and especially "Put another way:"). > -- >8 -- > Subject: move "--follow needs one pathspec" rule to diff_setup_done > > Because of the way "--follow" is implemented, we must have > exactly one pathspec. "git log" enforces this restriction, > but other users of the revision traversal code do not. For > example, "git format-patch --follow" will segfault during > try_to_follow_renames, as we have no pathspecs at all. > > We can push this check down into diff_setup_done, which is > probably a better place anyway. It is the diff code that > introduces this restriction, so other parts of the code > should not need to care themselves. > > Reported-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > --- > I didn't include a test, as I don't think the current behavior is what > we want in the long run. That is, it would be nice if eventually > --follow learned to be more flexible. Any test for this would > necessarily be looking for the opposite of that behavior. But maybe it's > worth it to just have in the meantime, and anyone who works on --follow > can rip out the test. > > builtin/log.c | 8 ++------ > diff.c | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c > index 39e8836..3b6a6bb 100644 > --- a/builtin/log.c > +++ b/builtin/log.c > @@ -158,13 +158,9 @@ static void cmd_log_init_finish(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix, > if (rev->show_notes) > init_display_notes(&rev->notes_opt); > > - if (rev->diffopt.pickaxe || rev->diffopt.filter) > + if (rev->diffopt.pickaxe || rev->diffopt.filter || > + DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev->diffopt, FOLLOW_RENAMES)) > rev->always_show_header = 0; > - if (DIFF_OPT_TST(&rev->diffopt, FOLLOW_RENAMES)) { > - rev->always_show_header = 0; > - if (rev->diffopt.pathspec.nr != 1) > - usage("git logs can only follow renames on one pathname at a time"); > - } > > if (source) > rev->show_source = 1; > diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c > index f72769a..68bb8c5 100644 > --- a/diff.c > +++ b/diff.c > @@ -3325,6 +3325,9 @@ void diff_setup_done(struct diff_options *options) > } > > options->diff_path_counter = 0; > + > + if (DIFF_OPT_TST(options, FOLLOW_RENAMES) && options->pathspec.nr != 1) > + die(_("--follow requires exactly one pathspec")); > } > > static int opt_arg(const char *arg, int arg_short, const char *arg_long, int *val) -- 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