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Re: git apply --directory broken for new files

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2008, 04:06 UTC
Message-ID
<20081012040611.GA11199@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<7vk5ceijqo.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I suspect this is only half of the story, because the code to parse:
> 
>  	diff --git "a/f\244o/bar.c" "b/f\244o/bar.c"
> 
> in the same function before the part you patched needs similar
> treatment.  There are two return of strbuf_detach(&first, NULL)
> in the if(){} block, and the return value needs to be prefixed with the
> value of --directory when given.

Ah, indeed. I remember looking for other returns, but somehow I managed to miss these completely obvious ones. Here is an updated patch, with a third test that fails on the old patch but works here.

> It would be easier to do this --directory prefixing in the sole caller of
> git_header_name(), though.

I went this route, and it is much more readable if slightly less efficient (one extra malloc/free).

-- >8 -- git apply --directory broken for new files

We carefully verify that the input to git-apply is sane, including cross-checking that the filenames we see in "+++" headers match what was provided on the command line of "diff --git". When --directory is used, however, we ended up comparing the unadorned name to one with the prepended root, causing us to complain about a mismatch.

We simply need to prepend the root directory, if any, when pulling the name out of the git header.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin-apply.c       |    7 ++++++
 t/t4128-apply-root.sh |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index bf80610..be7e1bd 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -810,6 +810,13 @@ static int parse_git_header(char *line, int len, unsigned int size, struct patch
 	 * the default name from the header.
 	 */
 	patch->def_name = git_header_name(line, len);
+	if (patch->def_name && root) {
+		char *s = xmalloc(root_len + strlen(patch->def_name) + 1);
+		strcpy(s, root);
+		strcpy(s + root_len, patch->def_name);
+		free(patch->def_name);
+		patch->def_name = s;
+	}
 
 	line += len;
 	size -= len;
diff --git a/t/t4128-apply-root.sh b/t/t4128-apply-root.sh
index 2dd0c75..bc7a8a8 100755
--- a/t/t4128-apply-root.sh
+++ b/t/t4128-apply-root.sh
@@ -40,4 +40,56 @@ test_expect_success 'apply --directory -p (2) ' '
 
 '
 
+cat > patch << EOF
+diff --git a/newfile b/newfile
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..d95f3ad
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/newfile
+@@ -0,0 +1 @@
++content
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'apply --directory (new file)' '
+	git reset --hard initial &&
+	git apply --directory=some/sub/dir/ --index patch &&
+	test content = $(git show :some/sub/dir/newfile) &&
+	test content = $(cat some/sub/dir/newfile)
+'
+
+cat > patch << EOF
+diff --git a/delfile b/delfile
+deleted file mode 100644
+index d95f3ad..0000000
+--- a/delfile
++++ /dev/null
+@@ -1 +0,0 @@
+-content
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'apply --directory (delete file)' '
+	git reset --hard initial &&
+	echo content >some/sub/dir/delfile &&
+	git add some/sub/dir/delfile &&
+	git apply --directory=some/sub/dir/ --index patch &&
+	! git ls-files | grep delfile
+'
+
+cat > patch << 'EOF'
+diff --git "a/qu\157tefile" "b/qu\157tefile"
+new file mode 100644
+index 0000000..d95f3ad
+--- /dev/null
++++ "b/qu\157tefile"
+@@ -0,0 +1 @@
++content
+EOF
+
+test_expect_success 'apply --directory (quoted filename)' '
+	git reset --hard initial &&
+	git apply --directory=some/sub/dir/ --index patch &&
+	test content = $(git show :some/sub/dir/quotefile) &&
+	test content = $(cat some/sub/dir/quotefile)
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.6.0.2.519.g6cb82.dirty
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