On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:53:12AM +0100, Mateusz Loskot wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 05:17, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:47:45AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> >
> > > > > I managed to identify where that garbage injections come from:
> > > > > from git aliases I've got configured [1]
> > > > >
> > > > > Could anyone explain what is happening here?
> > > > > Is there anything wrong with my ~/.gitconfig [1] ?
> > > >
> > > > I see the right behavior on my system (Debian amd64/sid) with
> > > > 2.21.0.rc0.258.g878e2cd30e and with master. I've built with ASan and
> > > > don't see any memory warnings on my system.
> > >
> > > I ran valgrind yesterday (gentoo amd64) and didn't find the problem
> > > either even though it clearly looked like some dangling pointers. I
> > > also audited this code and couldn't find anything obviously wrong. My
> > > only suspicion is maybe some strange getenv() behavior on Windows
> > > (_if_ the super prefix is used, but I can't see how...) and that's
> > > just a dead end for me.
> >
> > Certainly we fixed a bunch of getenv() problems in the upcoming 2.21
> > release, including 8aac69038f (get_super_prefix(): copy getenv() result,
> > 2019-01-11).
> >
> > Mateusz, can you try with the one of the v2.21.0 release candidates (or
> > the current tip of "master")?
> 
> Jeff, I have just tried git version 2.21.0.rc2.windows.1 and
> I no longer see the problem.
> It seems like a bug in earlier version indeed, that has been fixed now.

Great, thanks for confirming.

Junio, Johannes: I don't know if there were particular plans to pick up
those getenv() fixes for "maint", but if we're going to do a v2.20.2, it
might be worth it.  It's also possible that it's just due to ca1b411648
(mingw: safe-guard a bit more against getenv() problems, 2019-02-15),
but I'd consider that to be maint-worthy as well.

It may be that we just don't do a v2.20.2, though, since v2.21 is so
close to release.

-Peff

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