RE: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return value)

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On February 18, 2019 10:17, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> To: Joe Ranieri <jranieri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return
> value)
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 08:49:39AM -0500, Joe Ranieri wrote:
> > "git ls-files -m" can show deleted files, despite -d not having been
> > specified.
> 
> To my understanding that's intentional: a deleted file is considered modified,
> because its content clearly doesn't match the tracked content.

That's a good point and why I asked for a specific test condition that illustrated the bug as being unanticipated. I'm not sure what Joe supplied elsewhere in the thread does that.

> > This is due to ls-files.c's show_files function calling lstat but not
> > checking the return value before calling ie_modified with the
> > uninitialized stat structure.





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