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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: "Niklas Hambüchen" <mail@nh2•me>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, petr.mvd@gmail•com
Subject: Re: git format-patch --in-reply-to allows header injection. Intended?
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:36:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqppfbqd9x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5408D7ED.9010203@nh2.me> ("Niklas Hambüchen"'s message of "Thu, 04 Sep 2014 23:21:49 +0200")

Niklas Hambüchen <mail@nh2•me> writes:

> For example, if you pass "--in-reply-to=<msgid>\nTo: <other@example•com"
> (notice lack of trailing `>`), then the generated email will actually
> contain a
>   To: <other@example•com>
> header.

While I do not think of a reason to specify such a string to the
in-reply-to option (I'd rather edit the output in the editor if I
wanted to do anything fancy [*1*]), I do not think there is a reason
why you want to add a code to forbid such use, either.


[Footnote]

*1* For that matter, --in-reply-to option itself is superfluous.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-04 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-04 21:21 git format-patch --in-reply-to allows header injection. Intended? Niklas Hambüchen
2014-09-04 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-09-04 21:42   ` Niklas Hambüchen
2014-09-04 23:59     ` Junio C Hamano

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