Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] name-rev: eliminate recursion

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On 12/9/2019 6:52 AM, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> 'git name-rev' is implemented using a recursive algorithm, and,
> consequently, it can segfault in deep histories (e.g. WebKit), and
> thanks to a test case demonstrating this limitation every test run
> results in a dmesg entry logging the segfaulting git process.
> 
> This patch series eliminates the recursion.
> 
> Changes since v2:
> 
>   - Add the new patch 12 to use 'name->tip_name' instead of
>     'tip_name', to make the patch eliminating the recursion a bit even
>     easier to follow (only with '--ignore-all-space', though, without
>     that option that patch's diff is still mostly gibberish).
>     The end result is the still same, see the empty interdiff.

This new commit makes sense, and I see how it adjusts the context lines
in the patch that follows. This series looks good to me.

Thanks,
-Stolee



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