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Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 23, 2011, 16:09 UTC
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<20111023160914.GB22444@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:44:30PM +0200, Robin Rosenberg wrote:
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> Jeff King skrev 2011-10-22 21.09:
> >On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:04:19PM +1100, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> >
> >>This series helps pass commit message size up to output functions,
> >>though it does not change any output functions to print ^@.
> >Can we take a step back for a second and discuss what git _should_ do
> >with commits that contain NUL?
> Yes please. I don't think allowing NUL makes sense, but it makes sense
> to state how NUL should be handled when anyone attempt it, so there
> might be things to fix even if NUL is banned.
> 
> Are there any such commits in the wild?

Adding an arbitrary NUL, no, I don't think I've ever seen it outside of people (myself included) trying to break git in interesting ways.

But utf16 may contains NUL bytes, so I expect configuring your editor to output utf16 and running "git commit" would give you the most likely example.

-Peff
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Message 3 of 26 in “Re: [PATCH 00/22] Refactor to accept NUL in commit messages”
  1. Jeff KingOct 22, 2011
  2. Robin RosenbergOct 23, 2011
  3. Jeff KingOct 23, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2011
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 23, 2011
  10. Jeff KingOct 23, 2011
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 24, 2011
  13. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 24, 2011
  14. Štěpán NěmecOct 24, 2011
  15. Jeff KingOct 24, 2011
  16. Štěpán NěmecOct 25, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoOct 25, 2011
  18. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2011
  20. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 27, 2011
  22. Jeff KingOct 27, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011
  24. Jeff KingOct 28, 2011
  25. Miles BaderOct 28, 2011
  26. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011

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