Re: [PATCH 8/9] fsck: avoid parse_timestamp() on buffer that isn't NUL-terminated

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2025, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq346jqc0e.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <aRRux2uBfORc214r@pks.im>

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> So this is another site that would benefit from having something like
> `git_parse_int()` with an extra parameter indicating the number of
> bytes available for parsing (and a way to disable unit factors).

It is certainly an interesting approach that would work well.

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