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Re: [PATCH] sha1_file: don't malloc the whole compressed result when writing out objects

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 22, 2010, 06:17 UTC
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
> And what real life case would trigger this?  Given the size of the 
> window for this to happen, what are your chances?
> Of course the odds for me to be struck by lightning also exist.  And if 
> I work really really hard at it then I might be able to trigger that 
> pathological case above even before the next thunderstorm.  But in 
> practice I'm hardly concerned by either of those possibilities.

The real life case for any of this triggers for me is zero, as I won't be mistreating git as a continuous & asynchronous back-up tool.

But then that would make the whole discussion moot. There are people who file "bug reports" with an artificial reproduction recipe built around a loop that runs dd continuously overwriting a file while "git add" is asked to add it.

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  1. sha1_file: don't malloc the whole compressed result when writing out objectsNicolas Pitre, Feb 21, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2010
  3. Nicolas PitreFeb 21, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 21, 2010
  6. Nicolas PitreFeb 22, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2010
  8. Nicolas PitreFeb 22, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2010
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2010
  11. Nicolas PitreFeb 22, 2010
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2010
  13. Dmitry PotapovFeb 22, 2010

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