From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:01:52 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: diff-delta.c: allow delta with empty blob.
X-Git-Tag: v0.99.9n^2~23
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=962537a3eb03a118cf27d9d0da365a3216ed1caa;p=git.git

diff-delta.c: allow delta with empty blob.

Delta computation with an empty blob used to punt and returned NULL.
This commit allows creation with empty blob; all combination of
empty->empty, empty->something, and something->empty are allowed.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/delta.h b/delta.h
index 31d1820f..c6a47635 100644
--- a/delta.h
+++ b/delta.h
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ extern void *patch_delta(void *src_buf, unsigned long src_size,
 			 void *delta_buf, unsigned long delta_size,
 			 unsigned long *dst_size);
 
-/* the smallest possible delta size is 4 bytes */
-#define DELTA_SIZE_MIN	4
+/* the smallest possible delta size is 2 bytes (empty to empty) */
+#define DELTA_SIZE_MIN	2
 
 /*
  * This must be called twice on the delta data buffer, first to get the
diff --git a/diff-delta.c b/diff-delta.c
index b2ae7b5e..cf501389 100644
--- a/diff-delta.c
+++ b/diff-delta.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ void *diff_delta(void *from_buf, unsigned long from_size,
 	bdrecord_t *brec;
 	bdfile_t bdf;
 
-	if (!from_size || !to_size || delta_prepare(from_buf, from_size, &bdf))
+	if (delta_prepare(from_buf, from_size, &bdf))
 		return NULL;
 	
 	outpos = 0;