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Re: Strangely broken git repo

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 10, 2005, 15:21 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510100800580.14597@g5.osdl.org>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0510100742070.14597@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It seems to be the space.

Doing an strace on curl vs wget shows that curl seems to do no quoting at all. I'd personally argue that that is a serious bug in curl: it sure as hell knows that it's a http transport, and it seems to be just doing

	GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-agent:...
without any sanity checking at all.
		Linus
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Message 4 of 21 in “Strangely broken git repo”
  1. Martin Langhoff (CatalystIT)Oct 10, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  5. Morten WelinderOct 10, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsOct 10, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 10, 2005
  8. Quote reference names while fetching with curl.Junio C Hamano, Oct 11, 2005
  9. git-fetch --tags: deal with tags with spaces in them.Junio C Hamano, Oct 11, 2005
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 11, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisOct 12, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  14. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  17. git-check-ref-format: reject funny ref names.Junio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2005
  18. Refuse to create funny refs in clone-pack, git-fetch and receive-pack.Junio C Hamano, Oct 12, 2005
  19. Matthias UrlichsOct 11, 2005
  20. Nick HengeveldOct 12, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005

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