Merge branch 'sg/test-with-stdin' into maint

[git-core/git.git] / diff.c

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 051761b..a628ac3 100644 (file)
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2870,8 +2870,25 @@ int diff_populate_filespec(struct diff_filespec *s, unsigned int flags)
                        s->should_free = 1;
                        return 0;
                }
-               if (size_only)
+
+               /*
+                * Even if the caller would be happy with getting
+                * only the size, we cannot return early at this
+                * point if the path requires us to run the content
+                * conversion.
+                */
+               if (size_only && !would_convert_to_git(s->path))
                        return 0;
+
+               /*
+                * Note: this check uses xsize_t(st.st_size) that may
+                * not be the true size of the blob after it goes
+                * through convert_to_git().  This may not strictly be
+                * correct, but the whole point of big_file_threshold
+                * and is_binary check being that we want to avoid
+                * opening the file and inspecting the contents, this
+                * is probably fine.
+                */
                if ((flags & CHECK_BINARY) &&
                    s->size > big_file_threshold && s->is_binary == -1) {
                        s->is_binary = 1;