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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Mantas Mikulėnas" <grawity@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Crashes while trying to show tag objects with bad timestamps
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:53:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy5egark3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130222224655.GB21579@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:46:55 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I guess we should probably issue a warning, too. Also disappointingly,
> git-fsck does not seem to detect this breakage at all.

Yes for the warning, and no for disappointing.  IIRC, in the very
early implementations allowed tag object without dates.

I _think_ we can start tightening fsck, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-22 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-22 22:30 Crashes while trying to show tag objects with bad timestamps Mantas Mikulėnas
2013-02-22 22:46 ` Jeff King
2013-02-22 22:53   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-02-22 23:04     ` Jeff King
2013-02-22 23:14       ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2013-02-25 18:21         ` Jeff King
2013-02-22 23:20       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-25 18:30         ` Jeff King
2013-02-25 18:38           ` [PATCH 1/4] handle malformed dates in ident lines Jeff King
2013-02-25 18:39           ` [PATCH/RFC 2/4] skip_prefix: return a non-const pointer Jeff King
2013-02-25 18:46           ` [PATCH 3/4] fsck: check "tagger" lines Jeff King
2013-02-25 18:50           ` [PATCH 4/4] cat-file: print tags raw for "cat-file -p" Jeff King
2013-02-25 19:33             ` Mantas Mikulėnas
2013-02-22 23:01 ` [RFC/PATCH] hash-object doc: "git hash-object -w" can write invalid objects Jonathan Nieder
2013-02-22 23:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-22 23:09   ` Jeff King

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