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builtin/commit.c:prepare_to_commit() can call run_status() twice if using the editor, including status, and the user attempts to record a non-merge empty commit without explicit --allow-empty. If there is also a rename involved as well (due to using 'git add -N'), then a BUG in wt-status.c is triggered: BUG: wt-status.c:476: multiple renames on the same target? how? The reason we hit this bug is that both run_status() calls use the same struct wt_status * (named s), and s->change is not freed between runs. Changes are inserted into s with string_list_insert, which usually means that the second run just recomputes all the same results and overwrites what was computed the first time. However, ever since commit176ea74793("wt-status.c: handle worktree renames", 2017-12-27), wt-status started checking for renames and copies but also added a preventative check that d->rename_status wasn't already set and output a BUG message if it was. The problem isn't that there are multiple rename targets to a single path as the error implies, the problem is that 's' is not freed/cleared between the two run_status() calls. Ever since commitdc6b1d92ca("wt-status: use settings from git_diff_ui_config", 2018-05-04), which stopped hardcoding DIFF_DETECT_RENAME and allowed users to ask for copy detection, this bug has also been triggerable with a copy instead of a rename. Fix the bug by clearing s->change. A better change might be to clean up all of s between the two run_status() calls. A good first step towards such a goal might be writing a function to free the necessary fields in the wt_status * struct; a cursory glance at the code suggests all of its allocated data is probably leaked. However, doing all that cleanup is a bigger task for someone else interested to tackle; just fix the bug for now. Reported-by: Andrea Stacchiotti <andreastacchiotti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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