On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 06:42:01PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote: > When parsing these config variable names, we currently check that > the second dot is found nine characters into the name, disallowing > filter names with a length of five characters. Additionally, > git archive crashes when the second dot is omitted: > > $ ./git -c tar.foo=bar archive HEAD >/dev/null > fatal: Data too large to fit into virtual memory space. > > Instead we should check if the second dot exists at all, or if > we only found the first one. Eek. Thanks for finding it. Your fix is obviously correct. > --- a/archive-tar.c > +++ b/archive-tar.c > @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int tar_filter_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *data) > if (prefixcmp(var, "tar.")) > return 0; > dot = strrchr(var, '.'); > - if (dot == var + 9) > + if (dot == var + 3) > return 0; For the curious, the original version of the patch[1] read: + if (prefixcmp(var, "tarfilter.")) + return 0; + dot = strrchr(var, '.'); + if (dot == var + 9) + return 0; and when I shortened the config section to "tar" in a re-roll of the series, I missed the corresponding change to the offset. -Peff [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/175785/focus=175858 -- 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