From: Kjetil Barvik <barvik@broadpark.no>
To: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Troubles when directory is replaced by symlink
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:51:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bpocsz9k.fsf@broadpark.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <885649360906241507r6ac78495s802f8b7758bcabf9@mail.gmail.com>
James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Kjetil Barvik<barvik@broadpark.no> wrote:
>> From: Kjetil Barvik <barvik@broadpark.no>
>> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:08:28 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] lstat_cache: guard against full match of length of 'name' parameter
>
> My project ran into this bug today, and I can confirm that this patch
> fixes it. I think it's an important bug; it hasn't been mentioned yet,
> but this can result in lost work if the user had modified, but not added,
> one of the files that Git wrongly deleted.
>
> So, what's the status of this patch?
Sorry, have not have much time, and did not get any response on the
patch, and I almost forgot about it for a while.
But, since you say that the patch is ok, I shall try make a more
"final" patch by 14:00 UTC Friday 26.
Thanks for reminding me!
-- kjetil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-25 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-05 5:43 Troubles when directory is replaced by symlink Alexander Gladysh
2009-06-09 8:18 ` Alexander Gladysh
2009-06-11 11:48 ` Jeff King
2009-06-11 14:37 ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-06-14 14:34 ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-06-24 22:07 ` James Pickens
2009-06-25 22:51 ` Kjetil Barvik [this message]
2009-06-26 13:14 ` Kjetil Barvik
2009-06-26 14:14 ` Johannes Sixt
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