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From: "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
To: "'SZEDER Gábor'" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
	"'Joe Ranieri'" <jranieri@grammatech.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return value)
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:14:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000c01d4c7a5$17915a00$46b40e00$@nexbridge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190218151725.GL1622@szeder.dev>

On February 18, 2019 10:17, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> To: Joe Ranieri <jranieri@grammatech.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return
> value)
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 08:49:39AM -0500, Joe Ranieri wrote:
> > "git ls-files -m" can show deleted files, despite -d not having been
> > specified.
> 
> To my understanding that's intentional: a deleted file is considered modified,
> because its content clearly doesn't match the tracked content.

That's a good point and why I asked for a specific test condition that illustrated the bug as being unanticipated. I'm not sure what Joe supplied elsewhere in the thread does that.

> > This is due to ls-files.c's show_files function calling lstat but not
> > checking the return value before calling ie_modified with the
> > uninitialized stat structure.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-18 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-17 13:49 [BUG] ls-files showing deleted files (unchecked lstat return value) Joe Ranieri
2019-02-17 15:59 ` Randall S. Becker
2019-02-18 14:09   ` Joe Ranieri
2019-02-18 15:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-02-18 16:14   ` Randall S. Becker [this message]
2019-02-20 22:51   ` Junio C Hamano

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