On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I disagree with this analysis, as the fix you propose adds the > new line unconditionally, i.e. this code path would be broken > regardless of "show filename or not". Right. Because it is what we want. The old code (before that commit) used to have two different cases: fprintf(file, "%s mode change %06o => %06o%c", line_prefix, p->one->mode, p->two->mode, show_name ? ' ' : '\n'); ie if "show_name" was set, it would *not* print a newline, and print a space instead. But then on the very next line, it used to do: if (show_name) { write_name_quoted(p->two->path, file, '\n'); ie now it prints the filename, and then prints the newline. End result: it used to *always* print the newline. Either it printed it at the end of the mode (for the non-show_name case), or it printed it at the end of the filename (for the show_name case). Your patch removed the '\n' entirely. My patch makes it unconditional, which it was before your patch (it was "conditional" only in where it was printed, not _whether_ it was printed). > I wonder why our tests failed to tell us about this. > > Specifically we have t4100/t-apply-4.expect > mode change 100644 => 100755 t/t0000-basic.sh > mode change 100644 => 100755 t/test-lib.sh > which would seem to exercise this code path. That only tests "git apply --stat --summary". It doesn't test "git diff" at all. And the "mode change" printout is entirely different code (see apply.c vs diff.c). Linus