Re: [PATCH 5/5] refspec.c: use rhs in parse_refspec instead of potentially uninitialized item->dst

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Perhaps a better fisx is to explicitly assign NULL to item->dst when
>> we see there is no right-hand-side.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] refspec-api: avoid uninitialized field in refspec item
>
> When parse_refspec() function was created at 3eec3700 ("refspec:
> factor out parsing a single refspec", 2018-05-16) to take a caller
> supplied piece of memory to fill parsed refspec_item, it forgot that
> a refspec without colon must set item->dst to NULL to let the users
> of refspec know that the result of the fetch does not get stored in
> an ref on our side.
>
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This looks correct. Thanks for writing the patch.

> Did I miss the other 4 patches that this might depend on it?

No. I was sloppy and developed a couple of patches on top
of pu and then tried to put them onto their respective branches.
and then I forgot to correct the patch counts after figuring out the right
branch to apply this to.

Thanks,
Stefan