From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff: ignore unmerged paths outside prefix with --relative --cached
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:17:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqjyqwp9jh.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715060523.GA517940@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:05:23 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> A diff using --relative ignores entries outside the current directory.
> This results in a segfault when we try to process an unmerged entry
> that's outside of our prefix, since we end up with a NULL diff_filepair
> and use it without checking that it's valid.
> ...
> +cc Junio, as you may have some wisdom on that further exploration.
Will take a look at the history myself, but I would probably not
have much wisdom on a change from 2011. I often do not even
remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday ;-).
> diff-lib.c | 2 +-
> t/t4045-diff-relative.sh | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/diff-lib.c b/diff-lib.c
> index ae91027a02..a23119b852 100644
> --- a/diff-lib.c
> +++ b/diff-lib.c
> @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void do_oneway_diff(struct unpack_trees_options *o,
> if (cached && idx && ce_stage(idx)) {
> struct diff_filepair *pair;
> pair = diff_unmerge(&revs->diffopt, idx->name);
> - if (tree)
> + if (pair && tree)
> fill_filespec(pair->one, &tree->oid, 1,
> tree->ce_mode);
> return;
> diff --git a/t/t4045-diff-relative.sh b/t/t4045-diff-relative.sh
> index 2c8493fe66..167be0bdcc 100755
> --- a/t/t4045-diff-relative.sh
> +++ b/t/t4045-diff-relative.sh
> @@ -245,4 +245,13 @@ test_expect_failure 'diff --relative with change in subdir' '
> test_cmp expected out
> '
>
> +test_expect_success 'diff --relative --cached with change in subdir' '
> + git switch br3 &&
> + test_when_finished "git merge --abort" &&
> + test_must_fail git merge sub1 &&
> + echo file0 >expected &&
> + git -C subdir diff --relative --name-only --cached >out &&
> + test_cmp expected out
> +'
> +
> test_done
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2026-07-15 6:05 [PATCH] diff: ignore unmerged paths outside prefix with --relative --cached Jeff King
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