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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] merge-ll: use read_mmfile() to read external merge results
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:54:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929065442.GD1697497@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929064935.GA1276867@coredump.intra.peff.net>

After running an external merge driver, ll_ext_merge() reads the result
back from a temporary file. We can do the same thing with much less code
by using read_mmfile().

As a bonus, note that read_mmfile() correctly uses xsize_t() to detect
the case when we'd truncate the result.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 merge-ll.c | 21 +++++----------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/merge-ll.c b/merge-ll.c
index dfed6411a8..7fab7c5438 100644
--- a/merge-ll.c
+++ b/merge-ll.c
@@ -201,8 +201,7 @@ static enum ll_merge_result ll_ext_merge(const struct ll_merge_driver *fn,
 	struct strbuf cmd = STRBUF_INIT;
 	const char *format = fn->cmdline;
 	struct child_process child = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
-	int status, fd, i;
-	struct stat st;
+	int status, i;
 	enum ll_merge_result ret;
 	assert(opts);
 
@@ -241,20 +240,10 @@ static enum ll_merge_result ll_ext_merge(const struct ll_merge_driver *fn,
 	child.use_shell = 1;
 	strvec_push(&child.args, cmd.buf);
 	status = run_command(&child);
-	fd = open(temp[1], O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		goto bad;
-	if (fstat(fd, &st))
-		goto close_bad;
-	result->size = st.st_size;
-	result->ptr = xmallocz(result->size);
-	if (read_in_full(fd, result->ptr, result->size) != result->size) {
-		FREE_AND_NULL(result->ptr);
-		result->size = 0;
-	}
- close_bad:
-	close(fd);
- bad:
+
+	/* We can ignore errors; result is left NULL/0 in that case. */
+	read_mmfile(result, temp[1]);
+
 	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
 		unlink_or_warn(temp[i]);
 	strbuf_release(&cmd);
-- 
2.56.0.325.g545d7e68bc


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-29  6:49 [PATCH 0/5] use size_t for xdiff mmfile_t Jeff King
2026-09-29  6:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] xdiff: clean up read_mmfile() allocations on error Jeff King
2026-09-29 18:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29  6:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] xdiff: replace mmbuffer_t with mmfile_t Jeff King
2026-09-29 11:08   ` D. Ben Knoble
2026-09-29 18:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-30 15:32   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-30 22:46     ` Jeff King
2026-10-01 15:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29  6:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] xdiff: use size_t for buffer sizes Jeff King
2026-09-29  6:54 ` Jeff King [this message]
2026-09-29 19:22   ` [PATCH 4/5] merge-ll: use read_mmfile() to read external merge results Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29 20:11     ` Jeff King
2026-09-29 20:41       ` Jeff King
2026-09-29 20:43         ` [PATCH 6/5] merge-ll: handle external driver status before reading result Jeff King
2026-09-29 20:44         ` [PATCH 7/5] merge-ll: report an error when reading external merge results fails Jeff King
2026-09-29 21:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-29 21:49             ` Jeff King
2026-09-30 18:01               ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-30 22:41                 ` Jeff King
2026-10-01 15:37                   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-30 15:33   ` [PATCH 4/5] merge-ll: use read_mmfile() to read external merge results Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-30 22:50     ` Jeff King
2026-09-29  6:55 ` [PATCH 5/5] xdiff: NUL-terminate buffers read by read_mmfile() Jeff King
2026-09-30 15:32   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-30 19:59     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-30 22:49     ` Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] use size_t for xdiff mmfile_t Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] xdiff: clean up read_mmfile() allocations on error Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] xdiff: replace mmbuffer_t with mmfile_t Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] xdiff: use size_t for buffer sizes Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] xdiff: NUL-terminate buffers read by read_mmfile() Jeff King
2026-10-01 13:15     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] merge-ll: use read_mmfile() to read external merge results Jeff King
2026-10-01 13:15     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] merge-ll: handle external driver status before reading result Jeff King
2026-09-30 23:44   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] merge-ll: report an error when reading external merge results fails Jeff King

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