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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsck: check ident lines in commit objects
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:04:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100424190419.GA7502@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100424160608.GA14690@progeny.tock>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check that email addresses do not contain <, >, or newline so they can
> be quickly scanned without trouble.  The copy() function in ident.c
> already ensures that ordinary git commands will not write email
> addresses without this property.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> ---
> Thoughts?  Should some of these errors be warnings?

These should be errors.  We should never see this sort of thing
occur in a live repository.
 
> git fast-import is capable of producing commits with some of these
> problems: for example, it is fine with
> 
> 	committer C O Mitter <foo@b>ar.net> 005 -    +5

Yuck.  We probably should tighten up the parser in fast-import a
bit more.  The above is pretty insane for it to produce into the
repository.  I can't even begin to count how many ways the above
line is just wrong...  :-)

-- 
Shawn.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-24 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-24  0:45 [PATCH] fast-import docs: LT is valid in email, GT is not Mark Lodato
2010-04-24 16:06 ` [PATCH] fsck: check ident lines in commit objects Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 16:59   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 19:04   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-04-24 20:38     ` [PATCH 0/2] fast-import: tighten up parsing ident line Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 20:50       ` [PATCH 1/2] fast-import: be strict about formatting of raw dates Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 21:10       ` [PATCH 2/2] fast-import: validate entire ident string Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-26 16:02         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-26 16:24           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-26 16:30             ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-05-04 17:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-24 16:12 ` [PATCH] fast-import docs: LT is valid in email, GT is not Jonathan Nieder
2010-04-24 16:59   ` Mark Lodato

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