From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:25:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11 v2] Work around a regression in Windows 7, causing erase_in_line() to crash sometimes
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0906011025080.26154@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <1243836256-11958-1-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Hi,

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> The function FillConsoleOutputCharacterA() was pretty content in XP to take a NULL
> pointer if we did not want to store the number of written columns.  In Windows 7,
> it crashes, but only when called from within Git Bash, not from within cmd.exe.
> Go figure.

Did I really have too-long lines in my commit message?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> ---
>  compat/winansi.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> I squashed the second chunk of 05/11, as suggested by Hannes.

Makes sense, thank you!
Dscho