Be careful about left-over files from git add --edit runs
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If there is already a .git/ADD_EDIT.patch file, we fail to truncate it properly, which could result in very funny errors. Of course, this file should not be left lying around. But at least in one case, there was a stale copy, larger than the current diff. So the result was a corrupt diff. Let's just truncate the file when we write it and not worry about it too much. Reported by J Wyman. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Submitted as pull.107.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com |
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This actually already made it to |
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And it got the name |
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7fa92ba merged it into |
J Wyman reported almost a year ago (and I fixed this issue in Git for Windows around that time) that the
.git/ADD_EDIT.patchfile might still lie around at the beginning ofgit add --editfrom previous runs, and if the new patch is smaller than the old one, the resulting diff is obviously corrupt.This is yet another Git for Windows patch finally making it to the Git mailing list.