Re: [PATCH 2/2] difftool: handle uninitialized variable on empty diff

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When 'difftool --dir-diff' finds no changes, it results in an
> uninitialized variable warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Henigan <tim.henigan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  git-difftool.perl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/git-difftool.perl b/git-difftool.perl
> index 679a56d..c94557d 100755
> --- a/git-difftool.perl
> +++ b/git-difftool.perl
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ sub setup_dir_diff
>  	# by Git->repository->command*.
>  	my $diffrepo = Git->repository(Repository => $repo_path, WorkingCopy => $workdir);
>  	my $diffrtn = $diffrepo->command_oneline('diff', '--raw', '--no-abbrev', '-z', @ARGV);
> -	exit(0) if (length($diffrtn) == 0);
> +	exit(0) if ((not defined($diffrtn)) or (length($diffrtn) == 0));

Wouldn't it be far more readable to say something like

        if (!$diffrtn) {
        	exit(0);
	}

instead, as "diff --raw" output, when not empty, cannot be a single
"0"?

By the way, I suspect that the use of command_oneline() here is
wrong.  It uses '-z' so that it can handle whitespace characters in
pathnames sensibly (in other words, the output does not use LF as a
record separator), so pathnames with LF in them will be output
literally.  Taking only the first line of the "diff -z" output would
mean that you will stop when you see the first pathname with LF in
it.

This is not a new problem with this patch, but came from your
7e0abce (difftool: teach difftool to handle directory diffs,
2012-04-23).

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