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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Phillip Wood" <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	"Thomas Bock" <bockthom@cs.uni-saarland.de>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 12:57:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230427165709.GC1976451@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqleidl2ch.fsf@gitster.g>

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > In practice this can't cause us to walk off the end of an array, because
> > we always add an extra NUL byte to the end of objects we load from disk
> > (as a defense against exactly this kind of bug). However, you can see
> > the behavior in action when "committer" is the final header (which it
> > usually is, unless there's an encoding ...
> 
> ... or it is a signed commit or a commit that merges a signed tag.
> 
> There is no need for us to be exhaustive here, but I just wondered
> which one of these three commit object headers is more common.  I
> guess the reason "encoding" came to your mind first is because it is
> the oldest among the three.

Mostly the others did not occur to me at all. :)

I expect that "gpgsig" lines are probably the most common these days,
but that may be my biased view (I guess in the kernel workflow it is
probably signed tags).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-27 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-14 11:37 Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Thomas Bock
2023-04-15  8:52 ` Jeff King
2023-04-15  8:59   ` Jeff King
2023-04-15 14:10   ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17  5:40     ` Jeff King
2023-04-17  6:20       ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17  7:41         ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 22:32           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2023-04-17  9:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-18  4:12     ` Jeff King
2023-04-18 14:02       ` Derrick Stolee
2023-04-21 14:51         ` Thomas Bock
2023-04-22 13:41           ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:42             ` [PATCH 1/3] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:47             ` [PATCH 2/3] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-24 17:05               ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25  5:23                 ` Jeff King
2023-04-24 16:39             ` [PATCH 0/3] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Junio C Hamano
2023-04-25  5:52             ` [PATCH v2 " Jeff King
2023-04-25  5:54               ` Jeff King
2023-04-25  5:54               ` [PATCH v2 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-25  5:54               ` [PATCH v2 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-25  5:54               ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-25 10:11                 ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25 16:06                   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 11:36                     ` Jeff King
2023-04-26 15:32                       ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27  8:13                         ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27  8:14                           ` [PATCH v3 1/4] t4212: avoid putting git on left-hand side of pipe Jeff King
2023-04-27  8:14                           ` [PATCH v3 2/4] parse_commit(): parse timestamp from end of line Jeff King
2023-04-27  8:17                           ` [PATCH v3 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Jeff King
2023-04-27 10:11                             ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 11:55                               ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-27 16:46                                 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:20                               ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:55                                 ` Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:25                             ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-27 16:57                               ` Jeff King [this message]
2023-04-27  8:17                           ` [PATCH v3 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes Jeff King
2023-04-27  8:18                           ` [PATCH v3 0/4] fixing some parse_commit() timestamp corner cases Jeff King
2023-04-27 16:32                           ` Junio C Hamano
2023-04-26 14:06                     ` [PATCH v2 3/4] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp Phillip Wood
2023-04-26 14:31                       ` Andreas Schwab
2023-04-26 14:44                         ` Phillip Wood
2023-04-25  5:55               ` [PATCH v2 4/4] parse_commit(): describe more date-parsing failure modes Jeff King
2023-04-22 13:52         ` Weird behavior of 'git log --before' or 'git log --date-order': Commits from 2011 are treated to be before 1980 Jeff King

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