From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:38:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] refspec.c: use rhs in parse_refspec instead of potentially uninitialized item->dst
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaJ-k3rTiksJqkiJSvDv_bA-CKHskGXcTuA86Yyigf0oQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8t7z9qc6.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Perhaps a better fisx is to explicitly assign NULL to item->dst when
>> we see there is no right-hand-side.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] refspec-api: avoid uninitialized field in refspec item
>
> When parse_refspec() function was created at 3eec3700 ("refspec:
> factor out parsing a single refspec", 2018-05-16) to take a caller
> supplied piece of memory to fill parsed refspec_item, it forgot that
> a refspec without colon must set item->dst to NULL to let the users
> of refspec know that the result of the fetch does not get stored in
> an ref on our side.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This looks correct. Thanks for writing the patch.

> Did I miss the other 4 patches that this might depend on it?

No. I was sloppy and developed a couple of patches on top
of pu and then tried to put them onto their respective branches.
and then I forgot to correct the patch counts after figuring out the right
branch to apply this to.

Thanks,
Stefan