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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: michael@platin.gs
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Stefan Beller" <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	"Jeff Smith" <whydoubt@gmail.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	"Barret Rhoden" <brho@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] RFC blame: use a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2019 23:52:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736mtqy9n.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190407214635.12984-1-michael@platin.gs> (michael@platin.gs's message of "Sun, 7 Apr 2019 23:46:35 +0200")

michael@platin.gs writes:

> From: Michael Platings <michael@platin.gs>
>
> Hi Barret,
> This is the updated fuzzy matching algorithm, sorry for the delay. It does
> highlight a bug in the calculation for the number of lines ("int nr_parent_lines
>  = e->num_lines - delta;") - if you apply the patch, build it, then try to
> ./git blame --ignore-rev <the patch commit ID> blame.c then you'll get a segfault
> because nr_parent_lines is a negative number. I haven't had time to investigate further
> but I have confirmed that the bug is not due to my patch.

If you segfault with the patch and don't segfault with the patch, there
is not much of a point in declaring this "somebody else's problem", is
there?  It has to be fixed anyway in order to make the patch get in.

Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here?

-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-07 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <[PATCH v5 6/6] RFC blame: use a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines>
2019-04-07 21:46 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] RFC blame: use a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines michael
2019-04-07 21:52   ` David Kastrup [this message]
2019-04-08  9:48     ` Michael Platings
2019-04-08 16:03       ` Barret Rhoden
2019-04-09 15:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-04-09 15:56   ` Barret Rhoden
2019-04-09 19:10     ` Barret Rhoden
2019-04-03 16:02 [PATCH v5 0/6] blame: add the ability to ignore commits Barret Rhoden
2019-04-03 16:02 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] RFC blame: use a fingerprint heuristic to match ignored lines Barret Rhoden
2019-04-04 16:37   ` SZEDER Gábor

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