On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 08:56:09AM +0100, Paweł Dominiak wrote: > But it seems like something git should handle on its own, so that diff > would accommodate use in different circumstances with the same config. Yes, definitely. Here's my patch with a commit message and a test. -- >8 -- Subject: userdiff: skip textconv caching when not in a repository The textconv caching system uses git-notes to store its cache entries. But if you're using "diff --no-index" outside of a repository, then obviously that isn't going to work. Since caching is just an optimization, it's OK for us to skip it. However, the current behavior is much worse: we call notes_cache_init() which tries to look up the ref, and the low-level ref code hits a BUG(), killing the program. Instead, we should notice before setting up the cache that it there's no repository, and just silently skip it. Reported-by: Paweł Dominiak <dominiak.pawel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ userdiff.c | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh b/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh index bf33aedf4b..8ebfa3c1be 100755 --- a/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh +++ b/t/t4042-diff-textconv-caching.sh @@ -118,4 +118,26 @@ test_expect_success 'log notes cache and still use cache for -p' ' git log --no-walk -p refs/notes/textconv/magic HEAD ' +test_expect_success 'caching is silently ignored outside repo' ' + mkdir -p non-repo && + echo one >non-repo/one && + echo two >non-repo/two && + echo "* diff=test" >attr && + test_expect_code 1 \ + nongit git -c core.attributesFile="$PWD/attr" \ + -c diff.test.textconv="tr a-z A-Z <" \ + -c diff.test.cachetextconv=true \ + diff --no-index one two >actual && + cat >expect <<-\EOF && + diff --git a/one b/two + index 5626abf..f719efd 100644 + --- a/one + +++ b/two + @@ -1 +1 @@ + -ONE + +TWO + EOF + test_cmp expect actual +' + test_done diff --git a/userdiff.c b/userdiff.c index e399543823..fce3a31efa 100644 --- a/userdiff.c +++ b/userdiff.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #include "userdiff.h" #include "attr.h" #include "strbuf.h" +#include "environment.h" static struct userdiff_driver *drivers; static int ndrivers; @@ -460,7 +461,8 @@ struct userdiff_driver *userdiff_get_textconv(struct repository *r, if (!driver->textconv) return NULL; - if (driver->textconv_want_cache && !driver->textconv_cache) { + if (driver->textconv_want_cache && !driver->textconv_cache && + have_git_dir()) { struct notes_cache *c = xmalloc(sizeof(*c)); struct strbuf name = STRBUF_INIT; -- 2.44.0.rc2.424.gbdbf4d014b