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Re: git log - crash and core dump

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Antoine Pelisse <apelisse@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2013, 21:24 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> It still is curious how a malformed line was created in the first
> place.  I wouldn't worry if a private tool used hash-object to
> create such a commit, but if it is something that is commonly used
> (e.g. "git commit"), others may suffer from the same and the tool
> needs to be tightened a bit.

I already happened to see one like that, and it was clearly imported through remote-hg. I've not been able to reproduce though, and the parser in git-fast-import seemed already robust enough to me to not allow this kind of messed-up line. I will see if I can find some time to reproduce/investigate this deeper.

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Message 26 of 28 in “git log - crash and core dump”
  1. Ivan LyapunovApr 16, 2013
  2. Antoine PelisseApr 16, 2013
  3. René ScharfeApr 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  5. René ScharfeApr 16, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  7. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  8. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  9. John KeepingApr 17, 2013
  10. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013
  11. Konstantin KhomoutovApr 17, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  13. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  15. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  16. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  17. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  18. cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p"Jeff King, Apr 17, 2013
  19. Eric SunshineApr 19, 2013
  20. pretty: handle broken commit headers gracefullyRené Scharfe, Apr 17, 2013
  21. blame: handle broken commit headers gracefullyRené Scharfe, Apr 17, 2013
  22. Jeff KingApr 17, 2013
  23. René ScharfeApr 17, 2013
  24. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2013
  25. Jeff KingApr 18, 2013
  26. Antoine PelisseApr 16, 2013
  27. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  28. Ivan LyapunovApr 17, 2013

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