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Re: git error in tag ...: unterminated header

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 26, 2015, 15:52 UTC
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<20150626155248.GB30273@peff.net>
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:06:20AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I understood what you were saying, but it still appears too fragile to
> me to mix functions that assume NUL-terminated strings with an ad-hoc
> counted string check.

Yeah, I agree. It is not that you cannot make it safe, but that it is simply a fragile maintenance burden in the future. I thought we dealt with this already with a1e920a (index-pack: terminate object buffers with NUL, 2014-12-08), though.

-Peff
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  1. Wolfgang DenkJun 25, 2015
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  3. Wolfgang DenkJun 25, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 25, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  8. Johannes SchindelinJun 26, 2015
  9. Jeff KingJun 26, 2015
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2015
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 27, 2015
  12. Junio C HamanoJun 27, 2015
  13. fsck: it is OK for a tag and a commit to lack the bodyJunio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2015
  14. Eric SunshineJun 28, 2015
  15. Johannes SchindelinJun 29, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2015
  17. Johannes SchindelinJun 29, 2015
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2015

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