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[PATCH 1/2] git add -i: Fix parsing of abbreviated hunk headers

From
JHJean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
Date
Oct 9, 2007, 19:29 UTC
Message-ID
<470BD696.1010305@gmx.ch>

The unified diff format allows one-line ranges to be abbreviated by omiting the size. The hunk header "@@ -10,1 +10,1 @@" can be expressed as "@@ -10 +10 @@", but this wasn't properly parsed in all cases.

Such abbreviated hunk headers are generated when a one-line change (add, remove or modify) appears without context; for example because the file is a one-liner itself or because GIT_DIFF_OPTS was set to '-u0'. If the user then runs 'git add -i' and enters the 'patch' command for that file, perl complains about undefined variables.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Herren <jlh@gmx.ch>
---
 git-add--interactive.perl |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index be68814..15b3f5b 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -360,7 +360,9 @@ sub hunk_splittable {
 sub parse_hunk_header {
 	my ($line) = @_;
 	my ($o_ofs, $o_cnt, $n_ofs, $n_cnt) =
-	    $line =~ /^@@ -(\d+)(?:,(\d+)) \+(\d+)(?:,(\d+)) @@/;
+	    $line =~ /^@@ -(\d+)(?:,(\d+))? \+(\d+)(?:,(\d+))? @@/;
+	$o_cnt = 1 unless defined $o_cnt;
+	$n_cnt = 1 unless defined $n_cnt;
 	return ($o_ofs, $o_cnt, $n_ofs, $n_cnt);
 }
 
@@ -705,9 +707,6 @@ sub patch_update_cmd {
 		    parse_hunk_header($text->[0]);
 
 		if (!$_->{USE}) {
-			if (!defined $o_cnt) { $o_cnt = 1; }
-			if (!defined $n_cnt) { $n_cnt = 1; }
-
 			# We would have added ($n_cnt - $o_cnt) lines
 			# to the postimage if we were to use this hunk,
 			# but we didn't.  So the line number that the next
@@ -719,10 +718,10 @@ sub patch_update_cmd {
 			if ($n_lofs) {
 				$n_ofs += $n_lofs;
 				$text->[0] = ("@@ -$o_ofs" .
-					      ((defined $o_cnt)
+					      (($o_cnt != 1)
 					       ? ",$o_cnt" : '') .
 					      " +$n_ofs" .
-					      ((defined $n_cnt)
+					      (($n_cnt != 1)
 					       ? ",$n_cnt" : '') .
 					      " @@\n");
 			}
-- 
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