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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, ole@tange.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup.c: make check_filename() return 0 on ENAMETOOLONG
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 13:23:49 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602071317330.2964@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454800992-15953-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

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Hi Duy,

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

> Noticed-by: Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> ---
>  On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk> wrote:
>  > If file name too long it should just try to see if it is a reference
>  > to a revision.
> 
>  Looks easy enough to fix.

Maybe with a little bit more informative commit message? ;-)

Something like

	Avoid interpreting too-long parameter as file name

	Even if it is easier to write HEAD~2000, it is legal to write
	HEAD^^^... (repeats "^" 2000 times in total). However, such a
	string is too long to be a legal filename (and on Windows, by
	default even much, much shorter strings are still illegal
	because they exceed MAX_PATH).

	Therefore, if the check_filename() function encounters too long
	a command-line parameter, it should interpet the error code
	ENAMETOOLONG as a strong hint that this is not a file name
	instead of dying with an error message.

	Noticed-by: ...

What do you think?
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-07 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-06 21:56 git diff HEAD^(255) fails Ole Tange
2016-02-06 23:23 ` [PATCH] setup.c: make check_filename() return 0 on ENAMETOOLONG Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-07 12:23   ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-02-08  5:16     ` [PATCH] Avoid interpreting too-long parameter as file name Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2016-02-08 20:46       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-02-23 20:58 ` git diff HEAD^(255) fails Kevin Daudt

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