Re: Bug report: "Use of uninitialized value $_ in print"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2018, 17:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9k6csan.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180302165543.GA4616@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> That's probably a reasonable sanity check, but I think we need to abort
> and not just have a too-small DISPLAY array. Because later code like the
> hunk-splitting is going to assume that there's a 1:1 line
> correspondence. We definitely don't want to end up in a situation where
> we show one thing but apply another.

Yes, agreed completely.