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Re: [PATCH] diff: don't presume empty file when corresponding object is missing

From
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date
Oct 22, 2010, 07:04 UTC
Message-ID
<20101022070446.GA19834@pengutronix.de>
In-Reply-To
<alpine.LFD.2.00.1010212353550.2764@xanadu.home>
Hi Nicolas,
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:02:27AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> The low-level diff code will happily produce totally bogus diff output 
> with a broken repository via format-patch and friends by treating missing
> objects as empty files.  Let's prevent that from happening any longer.
> 
> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Great, this fixes format-patch to fail in my tree as advertised.
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

Thanks Uwe

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  1. diff: don't presume empty file when corresponding object is missingNicolas Pitre, Oct 22, 2010
  2. Uwe Kleine-KönigOct 22, 2010

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