Re: [PATCH] for_each_reflog_ent_reverse: turn leftover check into assertion

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> I _think_ the patch below is also applicable to the code before my
> boundary-fixing patch. But the rearranging also made me more confident
> in it.

Yeah, thanks for a fix.

> -- >8 --
> Subject: for_each_reflog_ent_reverse: turn leftover check into assertion
>
> Our loop should always process all lines, even if we hit the
> beginning of the file. We have a conditional after the loop
> ends to double-check that there is nothing left and to
> process it. But this should never happen, and is a sign of a
> logic bug in the loop. Let's turn it into a BUG assertion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Of course I cannot say something like "this can never happen; the old
> code was wrong to handle this case" without a nagging feeling that I am
> missing something, so extra careful eyes are appreciated (and are why I
> would rather have an assert here than removing the code and silently
> dropping lines if I am wrong).
>
>  refs.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
> index ccb8834..1f77fa6 100644
> --- a/refs.c
> +++ b/refs.c
> @@ -3451,7 +3451,7 @@ int for_each_reflog_ent_reverse(const char *refname, each_reflog_ent_fn fn, void
>  
>  	}
>  	if (!ret && sb.len)
> -		ret = show_one_reflog_ent(&sb, fn, cb_data);
> +		die("BUG: reverse reflog parser had leftover data");
>  
>  	fclose(logfp);
>  	strbuf_release(&sb);
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