Re: [PATCH v4] sparse index: fix use-after-free bug in cache_tree_verify()

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 10/17/2021 1:38 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>     [RFC] sparse index: fix use-after-free bug in cache_tree_verify()
>>     
>>     Changes since V3
>>     
>>      * removed "-q" from the test [1]. This is the same as V2 with a typo
>>        fixed in the commit message
>>     
>>     [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/
>>     e281c2e2-2044-1a11-e2bc-5ab3ee92c300@gmail.com/
> 
> Thanks.  Unfortunately I've already merged the previosu version on
> the 11th, so I took the liberty of turning this round into an
> incremental.  How does this look?
> 
> ----- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 --------- >8 -----
> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:07:09 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] t1092: run "rebase --apply" without "-q" in the test
> 
> We run a few Git subcommands and make sure they produce identical
> results with and without sparse-index.  To this set of subcommands,
> an earlier commit added "rebase --apply", but did so with the "-q"
> option, in order to work around a breakge caused by a version used

s/breakge/breakage/

> at Microsoft with some unreleased changes.
> 
> Because we would want to make sure the commands produce indentical

s/indentical/identical/

> results, including reports given to the output that lists which
> commits were picked, use of "-q" loses too much interesting
> information.  Let's drop "-q" from the command invocation and
> revisit the issue when the problematic changes are upstreamed.

I think this summarizes the situation quite well. Thanks.

-Stolee