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* merge-tree: drop generate_common strategyJeff King2016-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When merge_blobs sees an add/add conflict, it tries to create a virtual base object for the 3-way merge that consists of the common lines of each file. It inherited this strategy from merge-one-file in 0c79938 (Improved three-way blob merging code, 2006-06-28), and the point is to minimize the size of the conflict hunks. That commit talks about "if libxdiff were to ever grow a compatible three-way merge, it could probably be directly plugged in". That has long since happened. So as with merge-one-file in the previous commit, this extra step is no longer necessary. Our 3-way merge code is smart enough to do the minimizing itself if we simply feed it an empty base, which is what the more modern merge-recursive strategy already does. Not only does this let us drop some code, but it removes an overflow bug in generate_common_file(). We allocate a buffer as large as the smallest of the two blobs, under the assumption that there cannot be more common content than what is in the smaller blob. However, xdiff may feed us more: if neither file ends in a newline, it feeds us the "\nNo newline at end of file" marker as common content, and we write it into the output. If the differences between the files are small than that string, we overflow the output buffer. This patch solves it by simply dropping the buggy code entirely. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* merge-blobs.c: fix a memleakStefan Beller2015-03-23
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* Which merge_file() function do you mean?Junio C Hamano2012-12-09
There are two different static functions and one global function, all of them called "merge_file()", with different signatures and purposes. Rename them all to reduce confusion in "git grep" output: * Rename the static one in merge-index to "merge_one_path(const char *path)" as that function is about asking an external command to resolve conflicts in one path. * Rename the global one in merge-file.c that is only used by merge-tree to "merge_blobs()", as the function takes three blobs and returns the merged result only in-core, without doing anything to the filesystem. * Rename the one in merge-recursive to "merge_one_file()", just to be fair. Also rename merge-file.[ch] to merge-blobs.[ch]. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>