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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Special strings in commit messages
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 20:24:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f54bea17-c245-c644-f974-ca2ac84901c6@redhat.com> (raw)

I have a commit which looks like this:

$ git cat-file commit 4ca76eb7b47724c2444dfea7890fa8db4edd5762
tree c845be47a0653624b1984d0dc1a0b485b527811d
parent 9eee98638ef06149e17f94afaa357e3a9e296e69
author Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> 1507481682 +0200
committer Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> 1507481682 +0200

19: glibc-fedora-nis-rh188246.patch

 From baba5d9461d4e8a581ac26fe4412ad783ffc73e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:02:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Enable SETENT_BATCH_READ nis/nss option by default

* Mon May  1 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.4.90-4
- SETENT_BATCH_READ /etc/default/nss option for speeding up
   some usages of NIS+ (#188246)


This commit causes git rebase to fail, with this error:

fatal: could not parse .git/rebase-apply/0008

At this point, .git/rebase-apply/0008 contains this:

“
 From baba5d9461d4e8a581ac26fe4412ad783ffc73e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 08:02:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Enable SETENT_BATCH_READ nis/nss option by default

* Mon May  1 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.4.90-4
- SETENT_BATCH_READ /etc/default/nss option for speeding up
   some usages of NIS+ (#188246)
---
  nis/nss | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nis/nss b/nis/nss
index 
0ac6774a1ff29f012efaec9c4be1fcc3b83da7e8..d720e719267db5f741b67e7b98e4052e503c4333 
100644
”

Followed by the diff.  The preceding patch, .git/rebase-apply/0007, is:

“
[fweimer@oldenburg glibc-patches]$ cat .git/rebase-apply/0007
 From 4ca76eb7b47724c2444dfea7890fa8db4edd5762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 18:54:42 +0200
Subject: 19: glibc-fedora-nis-rh188246.patch


”

Based on strace output, something in git rebase calls git mailsplit, and 
it probably sees the "\nFrom " string and treats it as a start of a new 
mail message, and things go downhill from there.

I will escape "\nFrom " in commit messages (probably as "\n.From " or 
maybe "\n>From ", plus escaping for "\n."/"\n>" to make the encoding 
reversible), but I wonder if there is something else I need to escape 
while I'm at it.

Thanks,
Florian

             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-08 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-08 18:24 Florian Weimer [this message]
2017-10-08 21:30 ` Special strings in commit messages Eric Wong
2017-10-09 13:38   ` Florian Weimer
2017-11-18  1:01     ` [PATCH v2] rebase: use mboxrd format to avoid split errors Eric Wong

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