From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkout -p: handle tree arguments correctly again
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X94WHmY3Cd30wqan@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.819.git.1608389760050.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Hi Dscho,
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 02:55:59PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> This fixes a segmentation fault.
>
> The bug is caused by dereferencing `new_branch_info->commit` when it is
> `NULL`, which is the case when the tree-ish argument is actually a tree,
> not a commit-ish. This was introduced in 5602b500c3c (builtin/checkout:
> fix `git checkout -p HEAD...` bug, 2020-10-07), where we tried to ensure
> that the special tree-ish `HEAD...` is handled correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Argh, thanks for catching this. The patch looks obviously good.
Since I'm the one who introduced the bug in the first place:
Acked-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-19 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-19 14:55 [PATCH] checkout -p: handle tree arguments correctly again Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2020-12-19 15:02 ` Denton Liu [this message]
2020-12-19 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-12-19 17:40 ` Junio C Hamano
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