Martin Koegler <mkoegler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * check, that the tree line ends with \n Ok. > * prevent parse_commit_date from reading beyond the buffer, > - if author line does not end with \n > - if committer line does not contain > "even if" would be nicer, I think. > * verify in parse_commit_date, that the commiter line ends with \n Perhaps an additional note to leave for people who will later be tempted to touch this part of the code is needed; otherwise the time spent on the thread goes wasted. * keep the existing behaviour to return a commit object even when non-structural fields such as committer and author are malformed, so that tools that need to look at commits to clean up a history with such broken commits can still get at the structural data (i.e. the parents chain and the tree object). No need to resend if you allow me to amend the patch along the above lines (please just say so), or you could resend with improvements on your own. Thanks. - 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