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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jorge <griffin@gmx.es>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: .gitconfig folder
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 02:13:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150528061327.GA3688@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbGyZLx=UYCi5JeSLj7keMhcX_eH3qtWs3O+PidRjye4w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:24:47PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> What is our thinking for after-fact recovery attempts?
> Like we try the mmap first, if that fails we just use open to get the
> contents of
> the file. And when open fails, we can still print a nice error message?

For config, I think we could just open and read the file in the first
place. The data is not typically very big (and if you have a 3G config
file and git barfs with "out of memory", I can live with that).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-28  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 13:29 Bug: .gitconfig folder Jorge
2015-05-27 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-27 22:18   ` Jeff King
2015-05-27 22:24     ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-28  6:13       ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-27 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28  7:51       ` Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:54         ` [PATCH 1/4] read-cache.c: drop PROT_WRITE from mmap of index Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:54         ` [PATCH 2/4] config.c: fix mmap leak when writing config Jeff King
2015-06-30 14:34           ` [PATCH] config.c: fix writing config files on Windows network shares Karsten Blees
2015-06-30 14:46             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-30 16:01               ` Jeff King
2015-06-30 14:52             ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-06-30 16:00             ` Jeff King
2015-05-28  7:56         ` [PATCH 3/4] config.c: avoid xmmap error messages Jeff King
2015-05-28  8:03         ` [PATCH 4/4] config.c: rewrite ENODEV into EISDIR when mmap fails Jeff King
2015-05-28 17:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 20:44             ` Jeff King
2015-05-28 21:11               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-28 17:06         ` Bug: .gitconfig folder Junio C Hamano

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