From: Ben Olive <sionide21@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:15:25 GMT
Subject: Super long branch names corrupt `.git/config`
Message-ID: <CAAmo=1BU5N8nbonEb1aZEx=-e8VexwsE74pjm_56dXmCDK+K6g@mail.gmail.com>

My `.git/config` can be corrupted if I try to get a local branch with
an extremely long name to track a remote branch.

Here is a (contrived) example to reproduce the issue:


    $ cd /tmp
    $ mkdir buggyrepo otherrepo
    $ cd buggyrepo/ && git init && cd -
    $ cd otherrepo/ && git init && cd -
    $ cd buggyrepo/
    $ echo foo > MYFILE
    $ git add MYFILE && git commit -m "Initial"
    $ git remote add otherrepo ../otherrepo/
    $ git checkout -b `ruby -e "puts 'a'*200"`
    $ git push -u otherrepo `ruby -e "puts 'a'*200"`
    fatal: bad config file line 11 in .git/config
    $ git status
    fatal: bad config file line 11 in .git/config


Workaround available: Just delete the offending entry.

I tested this with 1.7.12.2

--Ben Olive