combine-diff: abort if --output is given

The code for combined diffs currently only writes to stdout. Abort and report that fact instead of silently ignoring the --output option. The (empty) output file has already been created at that point, though. Reported-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

René Scharfe committed Jun 18, 2022 at 13:12 UTC cfb19ae05f4565bc9d0a0cb3a23a3d2ab9fb8fab
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combine-diff.c
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index 512897e3bf..76d2351fce 100644 --- a/combine-diff.c +++ b/combine-diff.c @@ -1501,6 +1501,9 @@ void diff_tree_combined(const struct object_id *oid, if (opt->ignore_regex_nr) die("combined diff and '%s' cannot be used together", "--ignore-matching-lines"); + if (opt->close_file) + die("combined diff and '%s' cannot be used together", + "--output"); /* nothing to do, if no parents */ if (!num_parent)