From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:23:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: diff: munmap() file contents before running external diff X-Git-Tag: v2.23.0-rc0~21^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.lorimer.id.au/gitweb.git/diff_plain/3aef54e8b82bc02b9cebbb7d0bed8911ee0418e3 diff: munmap() file contents before running external diff When running an external diff from, say, a diff tool, it is safe to assume that we want to write the files in question. On Windows, that means that there cannot be any other process holding an open handle to said files, or even just a mapped region. So let's make sure that `git diff` itself is not holding any open handle to the files in question. In fact, we will just release the file pair right away, as the external diff uses the files we just wrote, so we do not need to hold the file contents in memory anymore. This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1315 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c index 5306c48652..0d2b287300 100644 --- a/diff.c +++ b/diff.c @@ -4207,6 +4207,8 @@ static void run_external_diff(const char *pgm, argv_array_pushf(&env, "GIT_DIFF_PATH_COUNTER=%d", ++o->diff_path_counter); argv_array_pushf(&env, "GIT_DIFF_PATH_TOTAL=%d", q->nr); + diff_free_filespec_data(one); + diff_free_filespec_data(two); if (run_command_v_opt_cd_env(argv.argv, RUN_USING_SHELL, NULL, env.argv)) die(_("external diff died, stopping at %s"), name);