don't return uninitialized memory from bdiff.blocks() bdiff.blocks() returns a dummy match at the end of both files; the length of that chunk is never set, so it will sometimes contain random heap garbage. There are apparently workarounds for this elsewhere: # bdiff sometimes gives huge matches past eof, this check eats them,

adding foo
adding bomb
adding a.c
adding dir/a.o
adding dir/b.o
! a.c
! dir/a.o
! dir/b.o
? .hgignore
a.c: unsupported file type (type is fifo)
! a.c
# test absolute path through symlink outside repo
A f
# try symlink outside repo to file inside
abort: ../z not under root