Re: [PATCH 2/2] sequencer: rework reflog message handling

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Fix this by creating the reflog message nearer to where the commit is
> created and storing it in a local variable which is passed as an
> additional parameter to run_git_commit() rather than storing the message
> in `struct replay_ctx`. This makes it harder to forget to call
> `reflog_message()` before creating a commit and using a variable with a
> narrower scope means that a stale value cannot carried across a from one
> iteration of the loop to the next which should prevent any similar
> use-after-free bugs in the future.

Nice.

> @@ -1124,10 +1119,10 @@ static int run_command_silent_on_success(struct child_process *cmd)
>   * author metadata.
>   */
>  static int run_git_commit(const char *defmsg,
> +			  const char *reflog_action,
>  			  struct replay_opts *opts,
>  			  unsigned int flags)
> ...
>  static int try_to_commit(struct repository *r,
>  			 struct strbuf *msg, const char *author,
> +			 const char *reflog_action,
>  			 struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned int flags,
>  			 struct object_id *oid)
> ...
>  static int do_commit(struct repository *r,
>  		     const char *msg_file, const char *author,
> +		     const char *reflog_action,
>  		     struct replay_opts *opts, unsigned int flags,
>  		     struct object_id *oid)

OK.  We no longer have the reflog_action as a part of replay_opts,
but they are almost always passed together, so making them sit
together in the list of parameters does make sense.

Will queue.  Thanks.