Re: Bug report: "Use of uninitialized value $_ in print"

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sam Kuper wrote:

> First, background. I encountered a bug on Debian Stretch, using this
> git version:
>
> $ git --version
> git version 2.11.0
>
> The bug is that in the midst of running
>
> git -c interactive.diffFilter="git diff --word-diff --color" add --patch
>
> and after having answered "y" to some patches and "n" to others, git
> suddenly spewed the following output:
>
> Use of uninitialized value $_ in print at
> /usr/lib/git-core/git-add--interactive line 1371, <STDIN> line 74.
> Stage this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,K,j,J,g,e,?]? n
> Use of uninitialized value $_ in print at
> /usr/lib/git-core/git-add--interactive line 1371, <STDIN> line 75.
[...]

Strange.  The relevant line, for reference:

$ dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile git_2.11.0-3+deb9u2_amd64.deb |
  tar Oxf - ./usr/lib/git-core/git-add--interactive |
  sed -n '1370,1372 p'

		for (@{$hunk[$ix]{DISPLAY}}) {
			print; <---- this one
		}

This is a foreach loop, so it's supposed to have set $_ to each value
in the list @{$hunk[$ix]{DISPLAY}).  So why is Perl considering it
uninitialized?

Is this reproducible for you?  Do you have more details about how I
can reproduce it?

What arch are you on?  What perl version do you use?  Can you report
this using "reportbug git"?

Thanks,
Jonathan