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Re: [PATCH] shortlog: fix segfault on empty authorname

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Dec 9, 2006, 21:56 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0612091653070.2630@xanadu.home>
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<20061209040421.GA29113@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Jeff King wrote:
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> The old code looked backwards from the email address to parse the name,
> allowing an arbitrary number of spaces between the two. However, in the case
> of no name, we looked back too far to the 'author' (or 'Author:') header.
> Instead, remove at most one space between name and address.
> 
> The bug was triggered by commit febf7ea4bed from linux-2.6.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Yep, that fixes the problem.
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  1. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  2. shortlog: fix segfault on empty authornameJeff King, Dec 9, 2006
  3. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinDec 9, 2006
  5. Jeff KingDec 10, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinDec 10, 2006
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