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[PATCH 0/3] Fix up some name hashing uglies..

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Feb 23, 2008, 04:32 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.00.0802222029180.21332@woody.linux-foundation.org>

I'll follow this with a series of three patches that do the name hashing cleanups I already sent out earlier, but it's now a nice sequence of three independent issues, where each patch is hopefully small and trivial enough that people say "yeah, that's obviously correct.

They're individually been run through the test-suite, although the problems that they address are obviously not triggered by any current test, largely because almost nothing actually uses the name hash lookup at all (and the thing that *does* use it - namely "git status", doesn't use it in a way that can actually trigger the bugs afaik).

But still, it's best to have it fixed, so that if anybody builds on top of it, they don't get bitten by the issues..

		Linus
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Message 1 of 4 in “Fix up some name hashing uglies..”
  1. 0/3 Fix up some name hashing uglies..Linus Torvalds, Feb 23, 2008
  2. Fix name re-hashing semanticsLinus Torvalds, Feb 23, 2008
  3. 2/3 Name hash fixups: export (and rename) remove_hash_entryLinus Torvalds, Feb 23, 2008
  4. 3/3 Use helper function for copying index entry informationLinus Torvalds, Feb 23, 2008

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