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Re: [PATCH] blame: handle broken commit headers gracefully

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Apr 18, 2013, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20130418165600.GA24492@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 02:55:29PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Or you can imagine nastier input strings, like
> 
>    Name <>-<email@host> 123456789 -0000
>    Name <ema>-<il@host> 123456789 -0000
>    Name <email@host~ 1234>56789 -0000
> 
> I am afraid that at some point "we should salvage as much as we
> can", which is a worthy goal, becomes a losing proposition.

Good point. In the worst cases, even if you cleaned things up, you might even need to allocate a new string (like your middle one), which would make calling split_ident_line a lot more annoying. Probably not worth the effort.

-Peff
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  1. Ivan LyapunovApr 16, 2013
  2. Antoine PelisseApr 16, 2013
  3. René ScharfeApr 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  5. René ScharfeApr 16, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  7. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  8. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  9. John KeepingApr 17, 2013
  10. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  11. Konstantin KhomoutovApr 17, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  13. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  15. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  16. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  17. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  18. cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"Jeff King, Apr 17, 2013
  19. Eric SunshineApr 19, 2013
  20. pretty: handle broken commit headers gracefullyRené Scharfe, Apr 17, 2013
  21. blame: handle broken commit headers gracefullyRené Scharfe, Apr 17, 2013
  22. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  23. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  25. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  26. Antoine PelisseApr 16, 2013
  27. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  28. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013

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