From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Must not modify the_index.cache as it may be passed to realloc at some point.
Message-ID: <7vtzp8g2s2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1191390255.16292.2.camel@koto.keithp.com>

Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> writes:

> The index cache is not static, growing as new entries are added. If entries
> are added after prune_cache is called, cache will no longer point at the
> base of the allocation, and realloc will not be happy.

Thanks for catching this.  This code originally was perfectly
Ok, but I broke it with the overlay_tree() change.