Re: A little mystery - crash caused by empty commit message.

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:58:43PM +0100, Tor Arvid Lund wrote:

> So - after the "+0100" on the committer line, hd tells me (as
> expected) that I have 0a 0a before "[HIA]". On the "faulty" commit I,
> for some reason, have 0a 00 instead. I do not understand why, but I
> guess strchr will return NULL when "\0[HIA]....." is passed to it, and
> segfault on the next iteration.
> 
> So - I am no closer to understanding what got me to this state, but
> your reply was helpful anyway, thanks :-)

Well, it certainly seems like a bug in one of the history-rewriting
programs. Can you try rebasing, cherry-picking, etc on the original
version of the commit to see if you can reproduce the breakage?

-Peff
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