Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: Avoid ambiguous pointer provenance for CHERI/Arm's Morello

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:25:17 -0800

René Scharfe <[email-masked]> writes:

> Subject: [PATCH] apply: use strsets to track symlinks
>
> Symlink changes are tracked in a string_list, with the util pointer
> value indicating whether a symlink is kept or removed.  Using fake
> pointer values requires awkward casts.  Use one strset for each type of
> change instead to simplify and shorten the code.
>
> Original-patch-by: Jessica Clarke <[email-masked]>

This may be recording a misleading credit.  The original patch
certainly was a good input to make us realize that we have a
problem, but has no contribution to the final code.

> Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <[email-masked]>