Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] blame: (dim rep. metadata lines or fields, decay date coloring)

[Stefan Beller]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<ava...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 04 2018, Stefan Beller jotted:
>
>> Stefan Beller (4):
>>   color.h: document and modernize header
>>   builtin/blame: dim uninteresting metadata
>>   builtin/blame: add option to color metadata fields separately
>>   builtin/blame: highlight recently changed lines
>
> I like this feature in principle, but I can't get it to work. Building
> pu and:

Thanks for testing the feature!
Please use the flag `--color-lines`, `--color-fields` or `--heated-lines`
for experimentation.

In the future we may decide that one of them becomes the default
(which one?) and is triggered by the color.ui=always setting as well.

>     ./git -c color.ui=always --exec-path=$PWD blame Makefile
>
> Shows no colors. Neither does:
>
>     ./git -c color.ui=always --exec-path=$PWD -c 
> color.blame.highlightRecent="red,12 month ago,blue" blame Makefile
>
> And there's a bug, it segfaults on any custom value to the other config
> option:
>
>     ./git -c color.ui=always --exec-path=$PWD -c color.blame.repeatedMeta=red 
> blame Makefile
>
>     0x00000000004c312b in color_parse_mem (value=0x8f6520 "red", value_len=3, 
> dst=0x1 <Address 0x1 out of bounds>) at color.c:272
>     272                     OUT('\033');
>
> The repeated_meta_color variable is NULL when passed to
> color_parse_mem(). Didn't dig further.

Thanks for noticing.
Fix below (white space mangled)

--- i/builtin/blame.c
+++ w/builtin/blame.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int xdl_opts;
 static int abbrev = -1;
 static int no_whole_file_rename;
 static int show_progress;
-static char *repeated_meta_color;
+static char repeated_meta_color[COLOR_MAXLEN];

 static struct date_mode blame_date_mode = { DATE_ISO8601 };
 static size_t blame_date_width;
@@ -1099,9 +1099,9 @@ int cmd_blame(int argc, const char **argv, const
char *prefix)

        if (!(output_option & OUTPUT_PORCELAIN)) {
                find_alignment(&sb, &output_option);
-               if (!repeated_meta_color &&
+               if (!*repeated_meta_color &&
                    (output_option & (OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE | OUTPUT_COLOR_FIELDS)))
-                       repeated_meta_color = GIT_COLOR_DARK;
+                       strcpy(repeated_meta_color, GIT_COLOR_DARK);
        }