From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Cc: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pretty.c: make git_pretty_formats_config return -1 on git_config_string failure
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:33:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140804203351.GA12898@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqmwbki7h3.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:45:44PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > `git_pretty_formats_config()` continues without checking git_config_string's
> > return value which can lead to a SEGFAULT.
>
> Indeed, without the patch:
>
> $ git -c pretty.my= log --pretty=my
> error: Missing value for 'pretty.my'
> zsh: segmentation fault git -c pretty.my= log --pretty=my
Hmm. Not related to the original patch, but that really looks like a
bug. Shouldn't "git -c pretty.my= ..." set pretty.my to the empty string?
I'd expect "git -c pretty.my ..." to set it to NULL (i.e., the "implicit
true" you get from omitting the "=" in the config files themselves).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-04 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-04 14:41 [PATCH] pretty.c: make git_pretty_formats_config return -1 on git_config_string failure Tanay Abhra
2014-08-04 15:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-04 18:56 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-08-04 19:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-04 20:33 ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-08-04 21:06 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-08-04 21:56 ` [PATCH] config: teach "git -c" to recognize an empty string Jeff King
2014-08-04 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
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