# Problem with git bundle creation 2 messages from 2010-10-13 to 2010-10-15. Participants: Kris Shannon, Jonathan Nieder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25434 ## Kris Shannon, 2010-10-13 01:58 Subject: Problem with git bundle creation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTimsMgsuiS4iT2z_ggD8t0V9xj7ezwxRHk9WgaOw%40mail.gmail.com ``` git clone git://github.com/freenet/fred-official.git git bundle create bad.gitbundle -1 build01194 head -2 bad.gitbundle Problem manifested by a commit message which happens to have a hyphen in just the wrong place such that git rev-list --boundary --pretty=oneline has a line which exceeds the 1024 buffer limit that git bundle is using for reading and happens to read in the rest of the commit messsage as a boundary commit. git bundle should probably be checking that the fgets buffer actually ends in a newline and if it doesn't then slurp in more until it does (probably discarding it in the process) ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-10-15 16:52 Subject: Re: Problem with git bundle creation Message-ID: <20101015165256.GB10204@burratino> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101015165256.GB10204%40burratino In-Reply-To: ``` Kris Shannon wrote: > git clone git://github.com/freenet/fred-official.git > git bundle create bad.gitbundle -1 build01194 > head -2 bad.gitbundle > > Problem manifested by a commit message which happens to have a hyphen > in just the wrong place such that git rev-list --boundary > --pretty=oneline has a line which exceeds the 1024 buffer limit that > git bundle is using for reading and happens to read in the rest of the > commit messsage as a boundary commit. > > git bundle should probably be checking that the fgets buffer actually > ends in a newline and if it doesn't then slurp in more until it does > (probably discarding it in the process) Sounds like you've tracked down the problem. Care to write a patch? (Even a placeholder that die()s would be helpful if you don't have time for the full proposed fix.) Thanks for reporting. Jonathan ```