Re: something fishy with Git commit and log from file

From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date: Aug 6, 2008, 10:44 UTC
Message-ID: <20080806104432.GG7121@bit.office.eurotux.com>
In-Reply-To: <48997D2E.9030708@obry.net>

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:30:06PM +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:

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>  The following command fails on my repository:
> 
>     $ git commit --file=clog
>     fatal: could not read log file 'clog': No such file or directory
> 
>     $ cat clog
>     toto
> 
>  Using the following command the commit pass without problem:
> 
>     $ cat clog | git commit --file=-
> 
>  With GDB I get:
> 
>  $ gdb --args git ci --file=clog
>  This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
>  (gdb) break strbuf_read_file
>  Breakpoint 1 at 0x44e64a: file strbuf.c, line 301.
>  (gdb) run
>  Starting program: /usr/local/bin/git.exe ci --file=clog
> 
>  Breakpoint 1, strbuf_read_file (sb=0x22cac0, path=0x22ccfa "clog", hint=0) 
>  at strbuf.c:301
>  301             fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
>  (gdb) print path
>  $1 = 0x0
> 
>  ???? outch, this is strange, or a gdb artifact?

gdb artifact. The breakpoint info shows the correct value.

Could you at that point run the following?

(gdb) p get_current_dir_name() $1 = ... "..."

If the returned value doesn't match the directory you were in, then there's a bug in git.

If the function doesn't exist, try: (gdb) p getwd(malloc(2048))

Regards, Luciano Rocha

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