"Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> wrote:
> 
> Recently I ran git --git-dir=lkml/git/1.git fsck
> and it reported:
> > warning in commit 299dbd50b6995c6debe2275f0df984ce697fb4cc: nulInCommit: 
> > NULL byte inthe commit object body
> 
> Which I found quite scary.  Nulls in the wrong place have a bad tendency
> to make programs misbehave.

Thanks.  In this case, it's a bit weird for fast-import to
accept this...

> +     # Mime decoding can create nulls replace them with spaces to protect git
> +     $subject =~ s/\0/ /;

\0 could appear more than once, so it needs a 'g', at least.
I squashed in a change to use "tr/\0/ /" instead
(tr// should be faster)
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