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Re: Git Bug Report: out of memory using git tag

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2022, 08:24 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:44 AM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> After sleeping on it, I think I fully understand what's going on. There
> are actually _two_ bugs, but they are closely related. ;)
>
> Here are patches which fix them both. I may be setting a new record for
> the ratio of commit message lines to changed code. But it took me a
> while to figure out what was going on, so I wanted to explain it fully.

Well explained. For someone who has (probably) never looked at that code (me), the explanations made perfect sense.

(Oh, and I didn't even have to report any s///.)
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Message 11 of 15 in “Git Bug Report: out of memory using git tag”
  1. Martin EnglundOct 28, 2022
  2. Jeff KingNov 1, 2022
  3. Philippe BlainNov 2, 2022
  4. Jeff KingNov 2, 2022
  5. 1/2 ref-filter: fix parsing of signatures without blank linesJeff King, Nov 2, 2022
  6. 2/2 ref-filter: fix parsing of signatures with CRLF and no bodyJeff King, Nov 2, 2022
  7. Elijah NewrenNov 2, 2022
  8. gigantic commit messages, was Re: Git Bug Report: out of memory using git tagJeff King, Nov 2, 2022
  9. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 2, 2022
  10. Elijah NewrenNov 2, 2022
  11. Eric SunshineNov 2, 2022
  12. Philippe BlainNov 2, 2022
  13. Jeff KingNov 3, 2022
  14. Taylor BlauNov 3, 2022
  15. Philippe BlainNov 2, 2022

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