Re: Fwd: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for git

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 10:05:38AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> Not sure what triggered the new finding of coverity as seen below as the
> parse_commit() was not touched. Junios series regarding the merge base
> optimization touches a bit of code nearby though.

I have noticed that "old" problems sometimes reappear when nearby code
changes. I assume that they have some kind of heuristic to identify the
location of a defect, that it probably includes the line number in the
file, and that it can be fooled by too much code appearing nearby.

-Peff



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