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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: ArcticLampyrid <ArcticLampyrid@outlook.com>,
	 Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>,
	 git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV Error Occurs When Attempting to Unbundle Without Initializing Git Repository.
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:55:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1q2t7n33.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240812114733.GA3732689@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2024 07:47:33 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>   - "verify" requires a repo, which I wouldn't have expected, but I
>     guess it's because we probably unbundle under the hood to walk.
>     Anyway, it gets the ordering right here and checks the repo before
>     opening the bundle.

In hindsight "verify" is misnamed and overrated.  Its purpose is to
check if the bundle can be unbundled into your _current_ repository
by checking if you have all the commits _required_ to unbundle the
bundle.

In fact, I doubt that "verify" looks at the pack stream part of the
file at all.

>   - list-heads doesn't require a repo, and segfaults. So it really does
>     need some kind of detection or default to know which hash to use.

Yes.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-12 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-12 10:57 SIGSEGV Error Occurs When Attempting to Unbundle Without Initializing Git Repository ArcticLampyrid
2024-08-12 11:47 ` Jeff King
2024-08-12 15:55   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-08-12 21:05   ` brian m. carlson
2024-08-13  9:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] bundle: fix handling of object format Patrick Steinhardt
2024-08-13  9:18   ` [PATCH 1/2] builtin/bundle: have unbundle check for repo before opening its bundle Patrick Steinhardt
2024-08-13  9:21     ` Eric Sunshine
2024-08-13  9:18   ` [PATCH 2/2] bundle: default to SHA1 when reading bundle headers Patrick Steinhardt
2024-08-13 11:24     ` Jeff King
2024-08-13 15:11       ` Junio C Hamano

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