Re: [PATCH] ls-files: use correct format string

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On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 07:47:51PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:

> struct stat_data and struct cache_time both use unsigned ints for all
> their members.  However the format string for 'git ls-files --debug'
> currently uses %d for formatting these numbers.  This means that we
> potentially print these values incorrectly if they are greater than
> INT_MAX.
> 
> This has been the case since the --debug option was introduced in 'git
> ls-files' in 8497421715 ("ls-files: learn a debugging dump format",
> 2010-07-31).

I didn't see any comment on this, but it seems like it must be obviously
correct, since as you note we do define those fields as unsigned. I'm
really surprised that -Wformat doesn't catch this, though. I wonder why.

-Peff



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