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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent users from adding the file that has all-zero SHA-1
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:13:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BU=WnhcHquO0520NR2T6y-OS9RDzCSaE_KyQVCp_uh4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0n9kJtUPrpxTmtfH7kVd7CksULjt7bo3cFhOrS_NBVbMw@mail.gmail.com>

2011/9/20 Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>:
> Hi Nguyễn,
>
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy writes:
>> This particular SHA-1 has special meaning to git, very much like NULL
>> in C. If a user adds a file that has this SHA-1, unexpected things can
>> happen.
>> [...]
>
> Interesting patch.  Is it possible to write some sort of testcase?

Naah. I tested it by explicitly clear the result hash, just before it
gets to my changes, then do "git add <blah>".
-- 
Duy

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-17 11:39 [PATCH] Prevent users from adding the file that has all-zero SHA-1 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-09-18 17:06 ` Mikael Magnusson
2011-09-19  9:26   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-09-20  6:25 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-09-20 10:13   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]

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