On 30/07/18 10:29, Eric Sunshine wrote: > This series fixes bugs causing corruption of the root commit when > "rebase -i --root" is used to swap in a new root commit. In particular, > the "author" header has trailing garbage. Some tools handle the > corruption somewhat gracefully by showing a bogus date, but others barf > on it (gitk, for instance). git-fsck correctly identifies the > corruption. I discovered this after git-rebase corrupted one of my own > projects. > > Unfortunately, these bugs (from js/sequencer-and-root-commits) made it > into the v2.18.0 release. It's worrying that a released Git can be > creating corrupt commits, but fortunately "rebase -i --root" is not > likely used often (especially on well-established projects). > Nevertheless, it may be 'maint' worthy and applies cleanly there. > > It was only after I diagnosed and fixed these bugs that I thought to > check 'pu' and discovered that Akinori MUSHA already made a stab[1] at > fixing one of the three bugs which this series fixes. Akinori's fix has > the somewhat undesirable property that it adds an extra blank line to > the end of the script, as Phillip correctly pointed out in review[2]. > Patch 2/2 of this series has the more "correct" fix, in addition to > fixing another bug. > > Moreover, patch 2/2 of this series provides a more thorough fix overall > than Akinori, so it may make sense to replace his patch with this > series, though perhaps keep the test his patch adds to augment the > strict test of the "author" header added by this series.
Johannes and I have some fixups for Akinori's patch on the branch fix-t3403-author-script-test at https://github.com/phillipwood/git That branch also contains a fix for the bad quoting of names with "'" in them. I think it would be good to somehow try and combine this series with those patches. I'd really like to see a single function to read and another to write the author script that is shared by 'git am' and 'git rebase -i', rather than the two writers and three readers we have at the moment. I was thinking of doing that in the longer term, but given the extra bug you've found in read_author_script() maybe we should do that sooner rather than later. > [1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/86a7qwpt9g....@idaemons.org/ > [2]: > https://public-inbox.org/git/f5b56540-d26a-044e-5f46-1d975f889...@talktalk.net/ > > Eric Sunshine (2): > sequencer: fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting author header > sequencer: fix "rebase -i --root" corrupting author header timezone > > sequencer.c | 9 +++++++-- > t/t3404-rebase-interactive.sh | 10 +++++++++- > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >
