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[PATCH] commit: fix pretty-printing of messages with "\nencoding "

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 28, 2007, 21:52 UTC
Message-ID
<20070328215209.GA13672@coredump.intra.peff.net>

The function replace_encoding_header is given the whole commit buffer, including the commit message. When looking for the encoding header, if none was found in the header, it would locate any line in the commit message matching "\nencoding " and remove it.

Instead, we now make sure to search only to the end of the header.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
You can see the bug by doing this:
  git-commit -m 'encoding foo'
  git-show
and getting a blank log message (unless, of course, you're using a
non-utf8 commit encoding, in which case you will actually have an
encoding header).

I wonder, though, if this function before or after is actually correct; if there is no encoding header, we exit the function immediately. But if we are changing the encoding from utf8 to a non-utf8 value, we presumably should continue and actually insert the new encoding header.

The searching could potentially be refactored to share code with get_header; however, either the interface gets a little hairy, or you have to repeat a few strlen()s, and I seem to recall a recent effort to reduce such calls in critical paths (which I think this probably is). The implementation here isn't ugly, anyway.

 commit.c |    7 +++++--
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index a4f2e74..754d1b8 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ static char *get_header(const struct commit *commit, const char *key)
 static char *replace_encoding_header(char *buf, const char *encoding)
 {
 	char *encoding_header = strstr(buf, "\nencoding ");
+	char *header_end = strstr(buf, "\n\n");
 	char *end_of_encoding_header;
 	int encoding_header_pos;
 	int encoding_header_len;
@@ -661,8 +662,10 @@ static char *replace_encoding_header(char *buf, const char *encoding)
 	int need_len;
 	int buflen = strlen(buf) + 1;
 
-	if (!encoding_header)
-		return buf; /* should not happen but be defensive */
+	if (!header_end)
+		header_end = buf + buflen;
+	if (!encoding_header || encoding_header >= header_end)
+		return buf;
 	encoding_header++;
 	end_of_encoding_header = strchr(encoding_header, '\n');
 	if (!end_of_encoding_header)
-- 
1.5.1.rc2.636.g7ca6fa-dirty
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