Subject: Re: epic fsck SIGSEGV! (was Recovering from epic fail (deleted .git/objects/pack))

From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:03:53 -0600

On Wednesday 2008 December 10 17:40:28 Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
>Anyway, that's a really annoying problem, and it's a bug in git.
>
>That stupid fsck commit walker walks the parents recursively.
>
>And judging by the fact that gdb also SIGSEGV's for you when
>doing the backtrace, it looks like the gdb backtrace tracer is _also_
>recursive, and _also_ hits the same issue ;)
>
>So you have definitely found a real bug.
>
>But we should definitely fix this braindamage in fsck. Rather than
>recursively walk the commits, we should add them to a commit list and just
>walk the list iteratively.

Suppose I fixed this tonight.  Would you need anything other than a patch 
(series) from me?  (E.g. copyright assignment or something else legal [vs. 
technical])
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