From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:07:17 GMT
Subject: Re: bug report: symbolic-ref --short command echos the wrong text while use Chinese language
Message-ID: <Y+u/xUQJoWVWULn6@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cTH1hUTSN+TRCo9brGMosEW-OWV0JVBATK+moB0EZec3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:29:15AM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > +static char *match_parse_rule(const char *refname, const char *rule)
> 
> Yes, this works nicely and fixes the reported problem:
> 
>   % $GIT_DIR/bin-wrappers/git symbolic-ref --short HEAD
>   测试-加-增加-加-增加
> 
> I'm all for this approach. Fewer scanf()'s, the better.
> 
> The new code itself looks correct; I think it properly covers all the
> edge-cases (at least those that came to my mind).

There's a leak in it when there is an ambiguous ref (because we allocate
short_name in each iteration of the loop, rather than overwriting the
buffer). I'll post a fixed version in a moment.

-Peff