doc: fix the 'revert a faulty merge' ASCII art tab spacing

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 892db21813bc484628e940274e742d103629b0ed..776101e8d709b924033a141efa38e3f734837c79 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -87,9 +87,8 @@ static void find_short_object_filename(int len, const char *hex_pfx, struct disa
                 * object databases including our own.
                 */
                const char *objdir = get_object_directory();
-               int objdir_len = strlen(objdir);
-               int entlen = objdir_len + 43;
-               fakeent = xmalloc(sizeof(*fakeent) + entlen);
+               size_t objdir_len = strlen(objdir);
+               fakeent = xmalloc(st_add3(sizeof(*fakeent), objdir_len, 43));
                memcpy(fakeent->base, objdir, objdir_len);
                fakeent->name = fakeent->base + objdir_len + 1;
                fakeent->name[-1] = '/';
@@ -848,8 +847,12 @@ static int get_sha1_1(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned l
  * through history and returning the first commit whose message starts
  * the given regular expression.
  *
- * For future extension, ':/!' is reserved. If you want to match a message
- * beginning with a '!', you have to repeat the exclamation mark.
+ * For negative-matching, prefix the pattern-part with '!-', like: ':/!-WIP'.
+ *
+ * For a literal '!' character at the beginning of a pattern, you have to repeat
+ * that, like: ':/!!foo'
+ *
+ * For future extension, all other sequences beginning with ':/!' are reserved.
  */
 
 /* Remember to update object flag allocation in object.h */
@@ -878,16 +881,22 @@ static int get_sha1_oneline(const char *prefix, unsigned char *sha1,
 {
        struct commit_list *backup = NULL, *l;
        int found = 0;
+       int negative = 0;
        regex_t regex;
 
        if (prefix[0] == '!') {
-               if (prefix[1] != '!')
-                       die ("Invalid search pattern: %s", prefix);
                prefix++;
+
+               if (prefix[0] == '-') {
+                       prefix++;
+                       negative = 1;
+               } else if (prefix[0] != '!') {
+                       return -1;
+               }
        }
 
        if (regcomp(&regex, prefix, REG_EXTENDED))
-               die("Invalid search pattern: %s", prefix);
+               return -1;
 
        for (l = list; l; l = l->next) {
                l->item->object.flags |= ONELINE_SEEN;
@@ -903,7 +912,7 @@ static int get_sha1_oneline(const char *prefix, unsigned char *sha1,
                        continue;
                buf = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
                p = strstr(buf, "\n\n");
-               matches = p && !regexec(&regex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0);
+               matches = negative ^ (p && !regexec(&regex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0));
                unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buf);
 
                if (matches) {
@@ -1344,9 +1353,6 @@ static char *resolve_relative_path(const char *rel)
        if (!starts_with(rel, "./") && !starts_with(rel, "../"))
                return NULL;
 
-       if (!startup_info)
-               die("BUG: startup_info struct is not initialized.");
-
        if (!is_inside_work_tree())
                die("relative path syntax can't be used outside working tree.");