From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:27:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] interpret_branch_name(): handle auto-namelen for @{-1}
Message-ID: <xmqq4lzfxwmq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170227093122.3jdb2b62hlbbio5r@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:25:40AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> However, before we do that auto-namelen magic, we call
>> interpret_nth_prior_checkout(), which gets fed the bogus
>> "0". This was broken by 8cd4249c4 (interpret_branch_name:
>> always respect "namelen" parameter, 2014-01-15).  Though to
>> be fair to that commit, it was broken in the _opposite_
>> direction before, where we would always treat "name" as a
>> string even if a length was passed.
>
> That commit is mine, by the way. More embarrassing than introducing the
> bug is that I _noticed_ the problem at the time and wrote a paragraph in
> the commit message rationalizing why it was OK, rather than just doing
> this trivial fix.

Thanks, I should also be embarrased since I didn't even notice the
issue when we queued it ;-)