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Re: [PATCH] sequencer: detect author name errors in read_author_script()

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 3, 2022, 17:15 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 10:29:24AM +0100, Phillip Wood wrote:
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> > The bug goes back to 442c36bd08 (am: improve author-script error
> > reporting, 2018-10-31), though the code was soon after moved to this
> > spot by bcd33ec25f (add read_author_script() to libgit, 2018-10-31).
> > It was presmably just a typo in 442c36bd08.
> 
> s/presmbly/presumably/
Yep.
> > We'll add test coverage for all the error cases here, though only the
> > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME ones fail (even in a vanilla build they to segfault
> 
> Do you mean "they ought to segfault"?

I think it's just s/to//. I.e., "even in a vanilla build they segfault consistently".

I rewrote that sentence a few times trying to make it as not-confusing as possible, but managed to leave in an editing error anyway. ;)

-Peff
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Message 4 of 11 in “Bug Report: Duplicate condition in read_author_script (sequencer.c)”
  1. Michael V. ScovettaOct 3, 2022
  2. sequencer: detect author name errors in read_author_script()Jeff King, Oct 3, 2022
  3. Phillip WoodOct 3, 2022
  4. Jeff KingOct 3, 2022
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonOct 3, 2022
  6. Jeff KingOct 3, 2022
  7. Jeff KingOct 3, 2022
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2022
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  10. Jeff KingOct 3, 2022
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