Re: [PATCH] [GSOC] cat-file: fix --batch report changed-type bug

> > diff --git a/builtin/cat-file.c b/builtin/cat-file.c
> > index 5ebf13359e83..5f9578f9b86b 100644
> > --- a/builtin/cat-file.c
> > +++ b/builtin/cat-file.c
> > @@ -345,11 +345,12 @@ static void print_object_or_die(struct batch_options *opt, struct expand_data *d
> >               contents = read_object_file(oid, &type, &size);
> >               if (!contents)
> >                       die("object %s disappeared", oid_to_hex(oid));
> > -             if (type != data->type)
> > -                     die("object %s changed type!?", oid_to_hex(oid));
> > -             if (data->info.sizep && size != data->size)
> > -                     die("object %s changed size!?", oid_to_hex(oid));
> > -
> > +             if (!(opt->all_objects && data->skip_object_info)) {
> > +                     if (type != data->type)
> > +                             die("object %s changed type!?", oid_to_hex(oid));
> > +                     if (data->info.sizep && size != data->size)
> > +                             die("object %s changed size!?", oid_to_hex(oid));
> > +             }
>
> Wouldn't checking data->skip_object_info be sufficient? It's only set
> when opt->all_objects is set anyway. But more importantly, it is the
> most direct root of the problem: we did not find out the type and size
> earlier, so comparing anything against data->type is useless.
>
> But that leads me to a follow-up question: what if we did give a format,
> so skip_object_info isn't set, but it didn't include the type or size?
>

> So the assumption is that we do always fill in the type, even if the
> user didn't ask for it. And that assumption is actually violated much
> earlier. These two bits of code from the setup are out of order:
>
>           if (opt->all_objects) {
>                   struct object_info empty = OBJECT_INFO_INIT;
>                   if (!memcmp(&data.info, &empty, sizeof(empty)))
>                           data.skip_object_info = 1;
>           }
>
>           /*
>            * If we are printing out the object, then always fill in the type,
>            * since we will want to decide whether or not to stream.
>            */
>           if (opt->print_contents)
>                   data.info.typep = &data.type;
>
> We should not let skip_object_info kick in at all if opt->print_contents
> is requested. And that causes other bugs outside of the spot you found.
> We look at data->type earlier in print_object_or_die() to decide whether
> or not to stream the contents, but we'll see garbage (fortunately we
> zero-initialize the expand_data struct, so it's at least predictably
> zero, and not random undefined behavior).
>
> But I think we'd want to solve it by swapping the two conditionals I
> showed above, which restores the assumption made in print_object_or_die().
>

> > +test_expect_success 'cat-file --batch="batman" with --batch-all-objects will work' '
> > +     git -C all-two cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch="%(objectname)" | wc -l >expect &&
> > +     git -C all-two cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch="batman" | wc -l >actual &&
> > +     test_cmp expect actual
> > +'
>
> Is it worth testing both of these? The %(objectname) one will fail in
> the same way (because we do not need to run oid_object_info() to get the
> oid, which we already have). I'm OK doing both for better coverage, but
> it may be worth mentioning either in a comment or in the commit message
> that we expect both to fail, and why.
>