From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:22:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid infinite loop in malformed packfiles
Message-ID: <xmqqft8b3fj4.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200824205231.GA787628@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> It may be hard to test, as I suspect modern versions of Git are not
> happy to create such a deep chain. We could test with a lowered value of
> the config option, though.

Yes, that was what I meant.  Start from a 1KB text, create 50
revisions of the file by adding a single line at its end at a time,
pack with depth limit of 100, and then see "git log -p" die when the
allowed max lowered to 10, or something like that.