Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > In practice this can't cause us to walk off the end of an array, because > we always add an extra NUL byte to the end of objects we load from disk > (as a defense against exactly this kind of bug). However, you can see > the behavior in action when "committer" is the final header (which it > usually is, unless there's an encoding ... ... or it is a signed commit or a commit that merges a signed tag. There is no need for us to be exhaustive here, but I just wondered which one of these three commit object headers is more common. I guess the reason "encoding" came to your mind first is because it is the oldest among the three.
