From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:24:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid segfault with 'git branch' when the HEAD is detached
Message-ID: <20090219032420.GA26488@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902190212290.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:15:00AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > Meaning that the bug was created after your valgrind testing (which 
> > takes a painfully long time to run, and so only happens occasionally), 
> > and therefore you found it by hand? Or meaning that even running the 
> > test suite with valgrind did not reveal the problem?
> 
> It bit me.
> 
> IOW I had to fix it before I could finish up the work for the day.

OK. I wasn't sure if it was "valgrind didn't find" or "valgrind wouldn't
find". And your answer is "didn't", but as it turns out, it also
"wouldn't.

Updated series with tests to follow.

-Peff