From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] get_short_sha1: NUL-terminate hex prefix
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:10:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq37kmvb6x.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160926120007.eswpfrzs2ed66d2o@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2016 08:00:07 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> We store the hex prefix in a 40-byte buffer with the prefix
> itself followed by 40-minus-len "x" characters. These x's
> serve no purpose, and the lack of NUL termination makes the
> prefix string annoying to use. Let's just terminate it.
> Note that this is in contrast to the binary prefix, which
> _must_ be zero-padded, because we look at the whole thing
> during a binary search to find the first potential match in
> each pack index.
Makes sense.
> The loose-object hex search cannot use the
> same trick because it has to do a linear walk through the
> unsorted results of readdir() (and even if it could, you'd
> want zeroes instead of x's).
OK.
> struct disambiguate_state {
> int len; /* length of prefix in hex chars */
> - char hex_pfx[GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ];
> + char hex_pfx[GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ + 1];
> unsigned char bin_pfx[GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ];
>
> disambiguate_hint_fn fn;
> @@ -291,7 +291,6 @@ static int init_object_disambiguation(const char *name, int len,
> return -1;
>
> memset(ds, 0, sizeof(*ds));
> - memset(ds->hex_pfx, 'x', GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ);
As the whole thing is cleared here...
>
> for (i = 0; i < len ;i++) {
> unsigned char c = name[i];
> @@ -313,6 +312,7 @@ static int init_object_disambiguation(const char *name, int len,
> }
>
> ds->len = len;
> + ds->hex_pfx[len] = '\0';
... do we even need this one? It would not hurt, though.
> @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static int get_short_sha1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1,
> status = finish_object_disambiguation(&ds, sha1);
>
> if (!quietly && (status == SHORT_NAME_AMBIGUOUS))
> - return error("short SHA1 %.*s is ambiguous.", ds.len, ds.hex_pfx);
> + return error("short SHA1 %s is ambiguous.", ds.hex_pfx);
Makes sense.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-26 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 1:39 Changing the default for "core.abbrev"? Linus Torvalds
2016-09-26 3:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 4:34 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 11:57 ` [PATCH 0/10] helping people resolve ambiguous sha1s Jeff King
2016-09-26 11:59 ` [PATCH 01/10] get_sha1: detect buggy calls with multiple disambiguators Jeff King
2016-09-26 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 17:21 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 17:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 11:59 ` [PATCH 02/10] get_sha1: avoid repeating ourselves via ONLY_TO_DIE Jeff King
2016-09-26 11:59 ` [PATCH 03/10] get_sha1: propagate flags to child functions Jeff King
2016-09-26 11:59 ` [PATCH 04/10] get_short_sha1: peel tags when looking for treeish Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:11 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 16:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 17:23 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] get_short_sha1: refactor init of disambiguation code Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] get_short_sha1: NUL-terminate hex prefix Jeff King
2016-09-26 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-09-26 17:25 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 17:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] get_short_sha1: mark ambiguity error for translation Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] sha1_array: let callbacks interrupt iteration Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] for_each_abbrev: drop duplicate objects Jeff King
2016-09-26 12:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] get_short_sha1: list ambiguous objects on error Jeff King
2016-09-26 16:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-27 5:42 ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-27 12:38 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 13:01 ` Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-29 13:24 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 14:36 ` Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-29 14:55 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-26 17:34 ` Jeff King
2016-09-26 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 11:46 ` Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-29 13:03 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 17:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 5:51 ` Jacob Keller
2019-02-04 16:12 ` [RFC/PATCH] core.abbrev doc: document and test the abbreviation length Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-04 19:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-04 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-04 21:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-04 23:32 ` Jeff King
2019-02-04 23:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-06 18:29 ` Jeff King
2019-02-06 18:36 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-09-26 6:33 ` Changing the default for "core.abbrev"? Matthieu Moy
2016-09-26 12:09 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 13:01 ` Kyle J. McKay
2016-09-26 7:13 ` Christian Couder
2016-09-28 23:30 ` [PATCH 0/4] raising core.abbrev default to 12 hexdigits Junio C Hamano
2016-09-28 23:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] config: allow customizing /etc/gitconfig location Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 9:53 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-09-29 17:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 17:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-09-28 23:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] t13xx: do not assume system config is empty Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 9:01 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 18:26 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 19:18 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 19:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 19:26 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 21:08 ` Jeff King
2016-09-28 23:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] worktree: honor configuration variables Junio C Hamano
2016-09-28 23:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] core.abbrev: raise the default abbreviation to 12 hexdigits Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 2:44 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-09-29 5:27 ` Lukas Fleischer
2016-09-29 9:22 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 9:15 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 10:03 ` Matthieu Moy
2016-09-29 12:52 ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-09-29 5:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2016-09-29 18:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-29 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-29 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-29 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 0:56 ` Mike Hommey
2016-09-30 1:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 19:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-09-29 19:16 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-29 19:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-29 23:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-29 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 0:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 0:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 1:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 3:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 4:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 4:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 4:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 4:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 4:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 18:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 4:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 8:06 ` Jeff King
2016-09-30 17:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 18:05 ` Jeff King
2016-09-30 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-30 20:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-30 7:47 ` Jeff King
2016-09-29 9:25 ` Jeff King
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