From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:43:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-pack: segfault fix on forced push
Message-ID: <20071108094339.GA20766@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl3h2i2j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:38:12AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> When pushing to overwrite a ref that points at a commit we do
> not even have, the recent "terse push" patch tried to get a
> unique abbreviation for the non-existent (from our point of
> view) object, which resulted in strcpy(buf, NULL) and
> segfaulted.

Good catch. The fix looks obviously correct.

-Peff