Re: [PATCH 1/2] index-pack: allocate NUL byte at the buffer end

Martin Koegler [off-list ref] writes:

Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <redacted>
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Other parts of git add a NUL to buffers as safty measure, so why not index-pack/
unpack-objects too?

Perhaps because nobody other than index-pack itself accesses it as if it
is a NUL terminated buffer?