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Re: Enable the packed refs file format

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 19, 2006, 20:55 UTC
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<20060919205554.GA8259@pasky.or.cz>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0609141005440.4388@g5.osdl.org>

Dear diary, on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:14:47PM CEST, I got a letter where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...

> +	ref_file = git_path(ref);

You slip... You fall... *BLAMMMM!!!*

Cloning a repository with '%s' tag over HTTP now dumps core nicely, and I guess this kind of bugs tends to be exploitable.

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				Petr "Pasky Yay for Obscure ADOM
					References" Baudis
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Message 2 of 8 in “Enable the packed refs file format”
  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 14, 2006
  2. Petr BaudisSep 19, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 19, 2006
  4. Phil RichardsSep 20, 2006
  5. Fix buggy ref recordingPetr Baudis, Sep 22, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 23, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisSep 23, 2006
  8. pack-refs: fix git_path() usage.Junio C Hamano, Sep 23, 2006

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