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Re: git stash apply segfaulting when called in subdir

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 26, 2007, 05:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20070726054800.GA21518@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0707260635060.14781@racer.site>
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:40:44AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> > The merge-recursive bug is simply a failure to check for invalid input.
> 
> No it is not.
> 
> The objects are there.  But the objects cannot be found, since 
> merge-recursive cannot go to top level.

Fair enough, I should have looked a little further. However, I still wonder if it's better to report an error than to segfault.

-Peff
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  1. Uwe Kleine-KönigJul 25, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 25, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinJul 25, 2007
  4. Jeff KingJul 26, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 26, 2007
  6. Jeff KingJul 26, 2007
  7. Steven WalterJul 25, 2007

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