Andy Parkins [off-list ref] writes:
On Tuesday 2007 March 20 05:41, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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[core]
legacyheaders = false
noticed, because almost nobody uses it.
I'm not sure that's going to be true for long - the 1.5.0 release notes
recommended setting it (assuming you didn't need backward compatibility) -
which is exactly what I (and I'm sure others) did.
Well, it is fixed in 'master' to be in -rc2, and that validation
does not exist in 'maint', so no harm is done.
On Tuesday 2007 March 20 08:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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noticed, because almost nobody uses it.
I'm not sure that's going to be true for long - the 1.5.0 release notes
recommended setting it (assuming you didn't need backward compatibility)
- which is exactly what I (and I'm sure others) did.
Well, it is fixed in 'master' to be in -rc2, and that validation
does not exist in 'maint', so no harm is done.
It wasn't the presence of the bug I was highlighting - it was the idea that
nobody uses that option.
Andy
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Andy Parkins wrote:
On Tuesday 2007 March 20 08:49, Junio C Hamano wrote:
quoted
quoted
quoted
noticed, because almost nobody uses it.
I'm not sure that's going to be true for long - the 1.5.0 release notes
recommended setting it (assuming you didn't need backward compatibility)
- which is exactly what I (and I'm sure others) did.
Well, it is fixed in 'master' to be in -rc2, and that validation
does not exist in 'maint', so no harm is done.
It wasn't the presence of the bug I was highlighting - it was the idea that
nobody uses that option.
Yeah, I'm actually happy that people seem to be using it, and it looks
like the bug really was totally harmless apart from triggering a bogus
error (ie it would never have corrupted anything, it just triggered an
error that it shouldn't have).
And I think the only thing that could ever trigger it was really that
special case of a zero-sized blob (or maybe an empty tree, but git doesn't
generate those natively unless you do magic stuff by hand).
Linus