From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Pickens Subject: Re: Troubles when directory is replaced by symlink Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:07:47 -0700 Message-ID: <885649360906241507r6ac78495s802f8b7758bcabf9@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090611114846.GC4409@coredump.intra.peff.net> <861vpmkhob.fsf@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff King , Alexander Gladysh , Linus Torvalds To: Junio C Hamano , Kjetil Barvik , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 25 00:08:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJadt-0003C3-8Z for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:08:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753165AbZFXWHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752991AbZFXWHv (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:51 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.217.214]:61378 "EHLO mail-gx0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752049AbZFXWHu (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:07:50 -0400 Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so1943621gxk.13 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:07:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SDV64XcHvrrpUhgPRuXV19/76YZ+BSn6rAuXsk1Z5u0=; b=YPT2xPM4kIDm7NJYeiV6wsCaGtI6jF7cQ1vjkNgfCXlYJyFTgUGqkUMofCirSmu5qu DHd245OUR+VTZg1+VHNBGoOXpn25UY4EZCOKHn9a+HfynKny2SZrqApMq9U/896vdzrh UyFwWG9neKUdQl4sZ6huZ+QimpfuqQZy1KVAg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IyJXZw6zGMUct4lcSs47mXvkHrTWBoTQVUXcGZW1thaLT2S1G5X7UEqXh+32s4RKwC 46UMsEmI8aCr5IYswu1RpXyLFRSqKdHnlod1rgFPC/xJE73L/e4kURmxYowZBjWgLhq3 kfRSGcVeBphw7+iT32uYC5ukuyw9qnfkPJeh0= Received: by 10.90.100.11 with SMTP id x11mr1431975agb.85.1245881267305; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:07:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <861vpmkhob.fsf@broadpark.no> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Kjetil Barvik wrote: > From: Kjetil Barvik > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:08:28 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] lstat_cache: guard against full match of length of 'name' parameter My project ran into this bug today, and I can confirm that this patch fixes it. I think it's an important bug; it hasn't been mentioned yet, but this can result in lost work if the user had modified, but not added, one of the files that Git wrongly deleted. So, what's the status of this patch? James