From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:43:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git-send-pack segfaulting on DebianPPC (was: Re: cg-clone, tag objects and cg-push/git-push don't play nice)
Message-ID: <46a038f90510191743r22205cf5ia6e5fd624c2d4949@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051019235208.GR30889@pasky.or.cz>

On 10/20/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:23:11AM CEST, I got a letter
> where Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> told me that...
> > Actually, all the tagsrefs have only one line, but something is going
> > weird around tagid=$(cat $tag) as $tag ends up containing many
> > filenames. So I undid my initial change to "head -n1", and I'm trying
> > to fix the loop.
>
> Hmm, what bash version are you using? It's enclosed in
>
>         for tag in *
>
> and perhaps your bash misunderstood.

After a bit of head-scratching, I found out what was causing this one:
legacy tagnames from git-cvsimport that contain '*' in the tagname. So

   tagid=$(cat SOME_TAG **INVALID**)

gives us some really nasty surprises.

cheers,


martin