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[PATCH] diff --no-index: reset temporary buffer lengths on directory iteration

From
Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Date
May 16, 2012, 04:14 UTC
Message-ID
<1337141693-3515-1-git-send-email-bobbypowers@gmail.com>

Commit 875b91b3 introduced a regression when using diff --no-index with directories. When iterating through a directory, the switch to strbuf from heap-allocated char arrays caused paths to form like 'dir/file1', 'dir/file1file2', rather than 'dir/file1', 'dir/file2' as expected. By resetting the length on each iteration (but not buf.alloc), we avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
---
 diff-no-index.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/diff-no-index.c b/diff-no-index.c
index b44473e..bec3ea4 100644
--- a/diff-no-index.c
+++ b/diff-no-index.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
 		struct strbuf buffer2 = STRBUF_INIT;
 		struct string_list p1 = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
 		struct string_list p2 = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP;
-		int i1, i2, ret = 0;
+		int len1 = 0, len2 = 0, i1, i2, ret = 0;
 
 		if (name1 && read_directory(name1, &p1))
 			return -1;
@@ -80,18 +80,23 @@ static int queue_diff(struct diff_options *o,
 			strbuf_addstr(&buffer1, name1);
 			if (buffer1.len && buffer1.buf[buffer1.len - 1] != '/')
 				strbuf_addch(&buffer1, '/');
+			len1 = buffer1.len;
 		}
 
 		if (name2) {
 			strbuf_addstr(&buffer2, name2);
 			if (buffer2.len && buffer2.buf[buffer2.len - 1] != '/')
 				strbuf_addch(&buffer2, '/');
+			len2 = buffer2.len;
 		}
 
 		for (i1 = i2 = 0; !ret && (i1 < p1.nr || i2 < p2.nr); ) {
 			const char *n1, *n2;
 			int comp;
 
+			buffer1.len = len1;
+			buffer2.len = len2;
+
 			if (i1 == p1.nr)
 				comp = 1;
 			else if (i2 == p2.nr)
-- 
1.7.10.2
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