diff --cc: a lost line at the beginning of the file is shown incorrectly

When combine-diff inspected the diff from one parent to the merge result,
it misinterpreted a header in the form @@ -l,k +0,0 @@.

This hunk header means that K lines were removed from the beginning of the
file, so the lost lines must be queued to the sline that represents the
first line of the merge result, but we incremented our pointer incorrectly
and ended up queuing it to the second line, which in turn made the lossage
appear _after_ the first line.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

combine-diff.c

@@ -164,20 +164,22 @@ static void consume_line(void *state_, char *line, unsigned long len)
 				      &state->nb, &state->nn))
 			return;
 		state->lno = state->nb;
-		if (!state->nb)
-			/* @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ to remove the
-			 * first two lines...
-			 */
-			state->nb = 1;
-		if (state->nn == 0)
+		if (state->nn == 0) {
 			/* @@ -X,Y +N,0 @@ removed Y lines
 			 * that would have come *after* line N
 			 * in the result.  Our lost buckets hang
 			 * to the line after the removed lines,
+			 *
+			 * Note that this is correct even when N == 0,
+			 * in which case the hunk removes the first
+			 * line in the file.
 			 */
 			state->lost_bucket = &state->sline[state->nb];
-		else
+			if (!state->nb)
+				state->nb = 1;
+		} else {
 			state->lost_bucket = &state->sline[state->nb-1];
+		}
 		if (!state->sline[state->nb-1].p_lno)
 			state->sline[state->nb-1].p_lno =
 				xcalloc(state->num_parent,

t/t4038-diff-combined.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='combined diff'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+setup_helper () {
+	one=$1 branch=$2 side=$3 &&
+
+	git branch $side $branch &&
+	for l in $one two three fyra
+	do
+		echo $l
+	done >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m $branch &&
+	git checkout $side &&
+	for l in $one two three quatro
+	do
+		echo $l
+	done >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m $side &&
+	test_must_fail git merge $branch &&
+	for l in $one three four
+	do
+		echo $l
+	done >file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m "merge $branch into $side"
+}
+
+verify_helper () {
+	it=$1 &&
+
+	# Ignore lines that were removed only from the other parent
+	sed -e '
+		1,/^@@@/d
+		/^ -/d
+		s/^\(.\)./\1/
+	' "$it" >"$it.actual.1" &&
+	sed -e '
+		1,/^@@@/d
+		/^- /d
+		s/^.\(.\)/\1/
+	' "$it" >"$it.actual.2" &&
+
+	git diff "$it^" "$it" -- | sed -e '1,/^@@/d' >"$it.expect.1" &&
+	test_cmp "$it.expect.1" "$it.actual.1" &&
+
+	git diff "$it^2" "$it" -- | sed -e '1,/^@@/d' >"$it.expect.2" &&
+	test_cmp "$it.expect.2" "$it.actual.2"
+}
+
+test_expect_success setup '
+	>file &&
+	git add file &&
+	test_tick &&
+	git commit -m initial &&
+
+	git branch withone &&
+	git branch sansone &&
+
+	git checkout withone &&
+	setup_helper one withone sidewithone &&
+
+	git checkout sansone &&
+	setup_helper "" sansone sidesansone
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'check combined output (1)' '
+	git show sidewithone -- >sidewithone &&
+	verify_helper sidewithone
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'check combined output (2)' '
+	git show sidesansone -- >sidesansone &&
+	verify_helper sidesansone
+'
+
+test_done