From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:33:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] Updated patch series for providing mechanism to list available repositories
Message-ID: <20100729003342.GC29156@dert.cs.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikaBoMOEGvLU8FL4Cvw4zBecXytvAnAYTS9GBa3@mail.gmail.com>

Greg Brockman wrote:

> (Incidentally, I just noticed a segfault with
> 
> $ unset HOME
> $ su git -m -c "git-receive-pack '~'"
> 
> that's probably worth fixing... if people don't think this is too
> pedantic of a case to fix, I'll submit a patch for it in a later
> series [I think the segfault comes from path.c:expand_user_path].)

Here’s a patch to save you time. :)

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=commitdiff;h=79bf149

> Anyway, i'll revise my first patch to use HOME rather than getpw*.

From the getpwnam(3) man page it looks like that is best practice,
anyway.

Cheers,
Jonathan