On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> In abe1998 ("git checkout -b: allow switching out of an unborn
>> branch"), a code-path overly-optimisticly assumed that a
>> branch-name was specified. This is not always the case, and as
>> a result a NULL-pointer was attempted printed to .git/HEAD.
>>
>> This could lead to at least two different failure modes:
>> 1) The CRT formated the NULL-string as something useful (e.g
>> "(null)")
>> 2) The CRT crasheed.
>
> Just a quick question. What does a cathode ray tube have to do with this
> (or "are people expected to know what CRT you are talking about?")?
>
Feel free to change it to "the C runtime", or even "the vsnprintf
implementation" if you feel like it :)
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