Re: Garbage in .git directories???

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20050919234030.GI18320@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <432F46BE.5000406@zytor.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:16:14AM CEST, I got a letter where "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis wrote:
> >>
> >>FWIW, using cg-clone (using git-core 0.99.6 and cogito 0.14.1) I keep 
> >>finding a directory in .git which consists of a single DEL character 
> >>(\177).
> >
> >Does cg-init produce it too? It really seems that this has to be a bug
> >in git-init-db. If that is the case, could you try temporarily renaming
> >the templates directory?
> 
> cg-init does produce it, too.  I'm not sure what you mean with 
> temporarily renaming the templates directory?

Preventing git-init-db to copy its stuff into your .git/ - I think the bug is likely somewhere there. Actually, this can be prevented by passing an argument to git-init-db:

	git-init-db --template=somethingnonexisting

Another idea - try this patch:

diff --git a/init-db.c b/init-db.c
--- a/init-db.c
+++ b/init-db.c
@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static void copy_templates(const char *g
 	}
 
 	memcpy(path, git_dir, len);
+	path[len] = 0;
 	copy_templates_1(path, len,
 			 template_path, template_len,
 			 dir);

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