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Re: [PATCH] Fix segfaults caused by invalid tags

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 2, 2005, 20:16 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0511022115250.13746@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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<20051102200751.26904.5780.stgit@machine.or.cz>
Hi,
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
> On many places, we didn't bother checking deref_tag() return value against
> NULL, causing GIT segfaulting e.g. on some old Cogito checkouts containing
> residual tags from GIT.

Shouldn't a warning be issued in every of those cases? I don't know, but those tags pointing nowhere don't seem useful to me.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 2 of 9 in “Fix segfaults caused by invalid tags”
  1. Fix segfaults caused by invalid tagsPetr Baudis, Nov 2, 2005
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2005
  4. Warn when calling deref_tag() on broken tagsPetr Baudis, Nov 2, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisNov 2, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2005
  9. Petr BaudisNov 2, 2005

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