Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:
>> if (len <= 0) {
>> free(fragment);
>> - return error(_("corrupt patch at line %d"),
>> state->linenr);
>> + return error(_("corrupt patch at %s:%d"),
>> state->patch_input_file, state->linenr);
>> }
>
> Do not forget that you can run "git apply" and feed the patch from
> its standard input, e.g.
>
> $ git apply <patchfile
> $ git show -R | git apply
>
> Make sure state->patch_input_file is a reasonable string before
> considering this.
I think what the patch does is safe in this case; callsites of
apply_patch(), which sets the .patch_input_file field, pass the
string "<stdin>", so you'd say
error: corrupt patch at <stdin>:43
We lost the word "line" in the message, but it would be picked up
rather quickly by users that colon + integer is a line number, so
I think it is OK.
> Also, if you have a mbox file
>
> $ cd sub/direc/tory
> $ git am -s /var/tmp/mbox
>
> The "git apply" process thatis run inside "git am" would be running
> at the top level of the working tree, so state->patch_input_file may
> say ".git/rebase-apply/patch" (i.e. relative pathname) that is not
> relative to where the end user is in. I personally do not thinkg it
> matters too much, but some people may complain.
>
> Other than that, looks good. I am kind-of surprised that there is
> only one place that we report an unusable input with a line number.
> Nicely found.
I still do not know if we have a relative-path problem, how severe
it would be if there is, or if it is fixable if we wanted to and
how, though.
Thanks.
