Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/4] sha1_file.c: support reading from a loose object of unknown type

From: karthik nayak <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:02:31 +0530

On 04/18/2015 12:53 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> karthik nayak <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> +       type = type_from_string_gently(buf, len, 1);
>> +       if (oi->typename) {
>> +               strbuf_add(oi->typename, buf, len);
>> +               strbuf_addch(oi->typename, '\0');
>
> add() has setlen() at the end so you do not have to NUL terminate it
> yourself.  Doing addch() is actively wrong, as oi->typename->len now
> counts the terminating NUL as part of the string, no?
>

Yes. was speculative of that. thanks for clearing it up.