From: Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:35:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [IGNORETHIS/PATCH] Choosing the sha1 prefix of your commits
Message-ID: <1319582104.10399.38.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20111020155611.GB16114@sigill.intra.peff.net>


On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 11:56 -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:14:55AM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> 
> > Another possibility is to warn if the commit messages are not NULL
> > terminated.
> 
> A minor nit, but it's not whether they are terminated with NUL, but
> rather whether they have embedded NUL. But yeah, this could maybe just
> be something fsck looks for.

God (or your deity of choice) forbid that anybody ever writes code that
saves raw UTF-16 as the commit message...

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-Drew Northup
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