add-patch: handle "* Unmerged path" lines

When we generate a diff with --cached, unmerged entries have no oid for
their index entry:

  $ git diff-index --abbrev --cached HEAD
  :100644 000000 f719efd 0000000 U	my-conflict

So when we are asked to produce a patch, since we only have one side, we
just emit a special message:

  $ git diff-index --cached -p HEAD
  * Unmerged path my-conflict

This confuses interactive-patch modes that look at cached diffs. For
example:

  $ git reset -p
  BUG: add-patch.c:498: diff starts with unexpected line:
  * Unmerged path my-conflict

Making things even more confusing, you'll get that error only if the
unmerged entry is alphabetically the first changed file. Otherwise, we
simply stick the unrecognized line to the end of the previous hunk.
There it's mostly harmless, as it eventually gets fed back to "git
apply", which happily ignores it. But it's still shown to the user
attached to the hunk, which is wrong.

So let's handle these lines as a noop. There's not really anything
useful to do with a conflicted merge in this case, and that's what we do
for other cases like "add -p". There we get a "diff --cc" line, which we
accept as starting a new file, but we refuse to use any of its hunks
(their headers start with "@@@" and not "@@ ", so we silently ignore
them).

It seems like simply recognizing the line and continuing in our parsing
loop would work. But we actually need to run the rest of the loop body
to handle matching up our colored/filtered output. But that code assumes
that we have some active file_diff we're working on. So instead, we'll
just insert a dummy entry into our array. This ends up the same as if we
saw a "diff --cc" line (a file with no hunks).

Reported-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/add-patch.c b/add-patch.c
index a86a92e164..d7fc4f4cd2 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -483,7 +483,8 @@ static int parse_diff(struct add_p_state *s, const struct pathspec *ps)
 		if (!eol)
 			eol = pend;
 
-		if (starts_with(p, "diff ")) {
+		if (starts_with(p, "diff ") ||
+		    starts_with(p, "* Unmerged path ")) {
 			complete_file(marker, hunk);
 			ALLOC_GROW_BY(s->file_diff, s->file_diff_nr, 1,
 				   file_diff_alloc);