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From: "Stefan Frühwirth" <stefan.fruehwirth@uni-graz.at>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] merge_blobs: use strbuf instead of manually-sized mmfile_t
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 13:48:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C70F01.9060609@uni-graz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvr0mjmc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 2016-02-16 at 22:27 Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Three, I know the existence of the program is not more than "we
> could do something like this" illustration by Linus, and its output
> is in no way _designed_ to be so.  We know today that it does not do

Well, then it is just really sad that the manpage doesn't say so. This 
should be corrected immediately in order to prevent someone to build 
more (e.g.) libraries on top of it.

Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-19 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-15 21:39 malloc memory corruption on merge-tree with leading newline Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-15 21:54 ` Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-16  1:12 ` [PATCH] merge_blobs: use strbuf instead of manually-sized mmfile_t Jeff King
2016-02-16  5:09   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-02-16  5:50     ` Jeff King
2016-02-16 12:14       ` Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-16 20:35         ` Jeff King
2016-02-19 12:43           ` Stefan Frühwirth
2016-02-16 21:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-19 12:48         ` Stefan Frühwirth [this message]

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