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Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects

From
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
May 3, 2005, 15:04 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.62.0505031104080.14033@localhost.localdomain>
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<200505031037.38005.mason@suse.com>
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
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> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 10:24, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > Hmmm, something is strange here, am I using this wrong?
> > >
> > > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -d foo foo2 delta1
> > > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -p foo delta1 out
> > > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b008 ***
> > > Aborted
> >
> > Can you send me your foo and delta2 files?
> >
> Sorry, thought I had the whole command history in there.  I went for something 
> small to start ;)
> 
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # echo foo > foo
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # echo foo2 > foo2
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -d foo foo2 delta1
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ls -la delta1
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 14 2005-05-03 10:36 delta1
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -p foo delta1 out
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b008 ***
OK, doh!

--- diff-delta.c.orig 2005-05-03 11:00:39.900529634 -0400 +++ diff-delta.c 2005-05-03 11:01:03.210031176 -0400

@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if (inscnt)
-		out[-inscnt - 1] = inscnt;
+		out[outpos - inscnt - 1] = inscnt;
 
 	delta_cleanup(&bdf);
 	*delta_size = outpos;
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Message 18 of 32 in “RFC: adding xdelta compression to git”
  1. Alon ZivMay 3, 2005
  2. Nicolas PitreMay 3, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  4. Davide LibenziMay 3, 2005
  5. C. Scott AnanianMay 3, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  7. Davide LibenziMay 3, 2005
  8. add the ability to create and retrieve delta objectsNicolas Pitre, May 3, 2005
  9. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  10. Nicolas PitreMay 3, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  12. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  13. C. Scott AnanianMay 3, 2005
  14. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  15. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  16. Nicolas PitreMay 3, 2005
  17. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  18. Nicolas PitreMay 3, 2005
  19. Chris MasonMay 3, 2005
  20. Linus TorvaldsMay 3, 2005
  21. add the ability to create and retrieve delta objectsNicolas Pitre, May 3, 2005
  22. Chris MasonMay 4, 2005
  23. C. Scott AnanianMay 4, 2005
  24. Chris MasonMay 4, 2005
  25. Linus TorvaldsMay 4, 2005
  26. Chris MasonMay 4, 2005
  27. Nicolas PitreMay 5, 2005
  28. Geert BoschMay 4, 2005
  29. Chris MasonMay 4, 2005
  30. Nicolas PitreMay 5, 2005
  31. Dan HolmsandMay 3, 2005
  32. C. Scott AnanianMay 3, 2005

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