"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
>
> In the interactive `add` operation, users can choose to jump to specific
> hunks, and Git will present the hunk list in that case. To avoid showing
> too many lines at once, only a maximum of 21 hunks are shown, skipping
> the "mode change" pseudo hunk.
Wow.
While the whole "add -i" was what I started, I admit that everything
more recent than the support of the "edit" action in "add -p" is
foreign to me. I didn't remember the existence of, and the
justification for, the 20-line limit. It seems that this came from
3f6aff68 (Add subroutine to display one-line summary of hunks,
2008-12-04).
> The comparison performed to skip the "mode change" pseudo hunk (if any)
> compares a signed integer `i` to the unsigned value `mode_change` (which
> can be 0 or 1 because it is a 1-bit type).
OK, that warrants a casting to signed, surely.
> Note: This is a long-standing bug in the Visual C build of Git, but it
> has never been caught because t3701 is skipped when `NO_PERL` is set,
> which is the case in the `vs-test` jobs of Git's CI runs.
Good finding.
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> ---
> add-patch.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
> index 509ca04456b..3524555e2b0 100644
> --- a/add-patch.c
> +++ b/add-patch.c
> @@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ soft_increment:
> strbuf_remove(&s->answer, 0, 1);
> strbuf_trim(&s->answer);
> i = hunk_index - DISPLAY_HUNKS_LINES / 2;
> - if (i < file_diff->mode_change)
> + if (i < (int)file_diff->mode_change)
> i = file_diff->mode_change;
> while (s->answer.len == 0) {
> i = display_hunks(s, file_diff, i);
