Empty regex pattern should always match. But the exact behavior of regexec() may vary. Because it always matches anyway, we can just return 'matched' without calling regex machinery. Signed-off-by: Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- On top of nd/oneline-sha1-name-from-specific-ref sha1_name.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c index 1ba4bc3..c5c59ce 100644 --- a/sha1_name.c +++ b/sha1_name.c @@ -599,6 +599,13 @@ static int peel_onion(const char *name, int len, unsigned char *sha1) int ret; struct commit_list *list = NULL; + /* + * $commit^{/}. Some regex implementation may reject. + * We don't need regex anyway. '' pattern always matches. + */ + if (sp[1] == '}') + return 0; + prefix = xstrndup(sp + 1, name + len - 1 - (sp + 1)); commit_list_insert((struct commit *)o, &list); ret = get_sha1_oneline(prefix, sha1, list); -- 1.7.3.3.476.g10a82 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html