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From: "Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Matthew Hughes" <matthewhughes934@gmail.com>,
	"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Montalbo" <mmontalbo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] line-log: fix -L with pickaxe options
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:21:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.2061.v2.git.1772652091.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2061.git.1772651484.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

This series fixes a crash in git log -L when combined with pickaxe options
(-G, -S, or --find-object) on a history involving renames, reported in [1].

The crash bisects to a2bb801f6a (line-log: avoid unnecessary full tree
diffs, 2019-08-21). Before that commit, the same combination silently
truncated history at rename boundaries rather than crashing. The root cause
is that diffcore_std() runs diffcore_pickaxe(), which may discard diff pairs
needed for rename detection.

Patch 1 fixes the crash by calling diffcore_rename() directly instead of
diffcore_std(), and adds tests including known-breakage markers showing that
the pickaxe options are silently ignored by -L.

Patch 2 explicitly rejects the unsupported combination with die(), replacing
the known-breakage tests with rejection tests.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/aac-QdjY1ohAqgw_@desktop/

Michael Montalbo (2):
  line-log: fix crash when combined with pickaxe options
  log: reject pickaxe options when combined with -L

 builtin/log.c       |  4 ++++
 line-log.c          |  8 +++++++-
 t/t4211-line-log.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


base-commit: 67ad42147a7acc2af6074753ebd03d904476118f
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2061%2Fmmontalbo%2Ffix-line-log-G-crash-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2061/mmontalbo/fix-line-log-G-crash-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2061

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  6e97d88993 ! 1:  273ebf640d line-log: fix crash when combined with pickaxe options
     @@ Commit message
          Before a2bb801f6a (line-log: avoid unnecessary full tree diffs,
          2019-08-21), diffcore_std() was only invoked when a rename was already
          suspected, so the pickaxe interference was unlikely in practice.  That
     -    commit made the diffcore_std() call unconditional, and with
     -    filter_diffs_for_paths() now framing that call, a queue pruned by
     -    pickaxe violates filter_diffs_for_paths()'s expectation that diff
     -    pairs correspond to tracked paths, triggering an assertion failure.
     +    commit restructured queue_diffs() to gate both diffcore_std() and the
     +    surrounding filter_diffs_for_paths() calls behind
     +    diff_might_be_rename().  When pickaxe breaks rename following at one
     +    commit, a later commit may produce a deletion pair that bypasses this
     +    gate entirely, reaching process_diff_filepair() with an invalid
     +    filespec and triggering an assertion failure.
      
          Fix this by calling diffcore_rename() directly instead of
          diffcore_std().  The line-log machinery only needs rename detection
 2:  ae5269af0b = 2:  81cb521401 log: reject pickaxe options when combined with -L

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-04 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-04 19:11 [PATCH 0/2] line-log: fix -L with pickaxe options Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget
2026-03-04 19:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] line-log: fix crash when combined " Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget
2026-03-04 20:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-04 22:33     ` Michael Montalbo
2026-03-04 19:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] log: reject pickaxe options when combined with -L Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget
2026-03-04 19:21 ` Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-03-04 19:21   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] line-log: fix crash when combined with pickaxe options Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget
2026-03-04 19:21   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] log: reject pickaxe options when combined with -L Michael Montalbo via GitGitGadget
2026-03-04 21:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-04 22:36       ` Michael Montalbo

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