From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:55:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] config: require at least one digit when parsing numbers
Message-ID: <69b91e29-af50-81db-8173-8b42a76ae1fb@dunelm.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Y1L+Qv+cs1bjqjK9@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff

On 21/10/2022 21:17, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:45:13PM +0000, Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget wrote:
> 
>> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>>
>> If the input to strtoimax() or strtoumax() does not contain any digits
>> then they return zero and set `end` to point to the start of the input
>> string.  git_parse_[un]signed() do not check `end` and so fail to return
>> an error and instead return a value of zero if the input string is a
>> valid units factor without any digits (e.g "k").
> 
> This one is easier to test than the last. Just:
> 
>    git config --int --default='m' some.key

Thanks for posting that, I'd forgotten about the --int flag for git config.

Best Wishes

Phillip

> works. And even playing devil's advocate, I can't think of a case where
> anybody would rely on the current behavior.
> 
> -Peff