Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.4 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:29:38 +0100

> Git v2.7.4 Release Notes
> ========================
> 
> Fixes since v2.7.3
> ------------------
> 
>  * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
>    corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
>    pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API.  Both of
>    these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
>    when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Changes since v2.7.3 are as follows:
> 
> Jeff King (7):
>       add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
>       tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
>       http-push: stop using name_path
>       show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
>       list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
>       list-objects: drop name_path entirely
>       list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
> 
If there is a new 2.7.x release, does it make sense to cherry-pick this one:

commit 7b6daf8d2fee1a9866b1d4eddbfaa5dbc42c5dbb
Author: Torsten BÃ¶gershausen <[email-masked]>
Date:   Sun Feb 28 21:09:44 2016 +0100

    config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6