From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:51:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_to_hex: properly terminate the SHA1
Message-ID: <7voe38j1n4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0512221854550.20025@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> sha1_to_hex() returns a pointer to a static buffer. Some of its users
> modify that buffer by appending a newline character. Other users rely
> on the fact that you can call
>
> 	printf("%s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
>
> Just to be on the safe side, terminate the SHA1 in sha1_to_hex().

Good catch, thanks.  The worst one is:

diff.c:727:		memcpy(one_sha1, sha1_to_hex(one->sha1), 41);