From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: Memory overrun in http-push.c Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:40:33 +0000 Message-ID: <200703011040.35971.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <20070228151516.GC57456@codelabs.ru> <81b0412b0703010015l5c91c68pd4748ae379db98bb@mail.gmail.com> <7vslcpux62.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , "Alex Riesen" , "Eygene Ryabinkin" , "Johannes Schindelin" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 01 11:40:54 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HMiiS-0001MZ-Pf for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:40:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964883AbXCAKkm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:40:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964919AbXCAKkm (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:40:42 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:10520 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964883AbXCAKkl (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 05:40:41 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so850646nfa for ; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:40:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=f93/SR0B0ujRC2mNxEdAunbtG3GZUzHwtmaHfsFdMnIPqcP7N4rhHH/m/7AO076kshA2TymuXARJuEhKNe0eTAj0/pxfw6fEaw4vPy9+kKq8VKirKzCPSvNvMXBBNMuplgfjWSsmN3nbX44VoSH5Ksr8fxvsVKSfvSPkPdP3W00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=X7fxxk9PjAWMH2TBBPU6Isnj4xUzsw8VghSKFlMtBFemKGoJQ6CxcUf8bl00q1q+XNzuiwSvW/GTpOJ9xuctFsaUCAOyBdKJYlOtxddMMWiCDkILXyT4flXYWo/AEEna3RYV4wiCJx4ScAIvJeQOn8XRbtk2Y4xdbhIJLIOdsDU= Received: by 10.48.204.7 with SMTP id b7mr5402190nfg.1172745640639; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:40:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id l22sm8537711nfc.2007.03.01.02.40.38; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:40:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7vslcpux62.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thursday 2007 March 01 09:32, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If you make it a requirement to send even an trivially obvious I certainly wasn't suggesting that it should be a requirement. I just thought there was a certain irony. Perhaps even a lesson to be learned - find out why someone has chosen (even with git in front of them and deep enough inside to find bugs in it), not to use git. I think there is a usability lesson to be pulled from this situation. Why didn't Eygene just say: $ tar zxvf git-tarball.tgz $ cd git $ git init $ vim http-push.c $ git diff Note, that was not an attack on Eygene - I genuinely am interested to know where we should put the documentation that tells a new user what they need to know quickly. Somehow, git has failed this person. I was simply wondering in what way. However, Eygene's response made it sound like a situational thing - it was inconvenient to actually install git. Fair enough. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com