From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:48:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqbmlnecxd.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171003233638.fq6lgls2qsucfbn3@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 3 Oct 2017 19:36:38 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> Moreover, this is in the webdav-based "dumb http" push code path,
>> which I do not trust much at all. I wonder if we could retire it
>> completely (or at least provide an option to turn it off).
>
> I would really like that, too. It has been the cause of a lot of pain
> when working with the smart code, and I am not at all surprised to find
> a bug of this magnitude lurking in it. I'd _hoped_ this could show that
> the system has been unusably broken for years, which would give us
> confidence to turn it off. :) But per your paragraph above, people could
> very easily still have been happily using it in the meantime.
Same here. Perhaps we should deliberately and silently break it and
see who screams?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-03 19:57 [PATCH 0/3] fixes for running the test suite with --valgrind Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-03 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/3] path.c: fix uninitialized memory access Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-03 22:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 23:30 ` Jeff King
2017-10-03 23:37 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-04 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04 5:21 ` Jeff King
2017-10-04 19:22 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-04 19:36 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] http-push: fix construction of hex value from path Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-03 22:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 23:36 ` Jeff King
2017-10-04 4:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-04 5:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04 5:26 ` Jeff King
2017-10-04 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-03 19:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] sub-process: allocate argv on the heap Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-03 20:24 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-10-04 4:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-04 5:32 ` Jeff King
2017-10-04 5:58 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-10-04 19:31 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-03 20:25 ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-03 23:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixes for running the test suite with --valgrind Jeff King
2017-10-03 23:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-03 23:54 ` Jeff King
2017-10-04 10:19 ` playing with MSan, was " Jeff King
2017-10-04 19:30 ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-10-05 3:46 ` lstat-ing delayed-filter output, was Re: playing with MSan Jeff King
2017-10-05 10:47 ` Lars Schneider
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