On January 12, 2018 9:39 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 04:39:04PM -0500, Randall S. Becker wrote: > > > > executed because the test_commit fails with a non-zero git commit > > > completion code. There is no rn---- (actual r n 252 252 252 252) in > > > the objects directory - even the 'rn' does not correspond to > > > anything.. I am suspecting an unterminated string that ran into > > > freed memory somewhere, but that's speculative. > > > > Does anyone recall fixing this one at or near > > dfe46c5ce6e68d682f80f9874f0eb107e9fee797? There was a rewrite of > > sha1_file.c including link_alt_odb_entry where I am finding memory > > corruptions. I think I'm chasing something that was already fixed some > > time after 2.13.5 but the common parent to where I am is pretty far > > back compared to master. > > I did a lot of work on link_alt_odb_entry() in the past year or so, and I seem > to recall seeing some cases where we could run into unterminated memory > in the error message. > > Maybe dc732bd5cb (read_info_alternates: read contents into strbuf, 2017- > 09-19)?
In that case, I think I'm going to jump right to 2.16.0-rc2. I think I would have preferred 2.15.2 - but there isn't one yet 😉 Cheers, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.
