Elijah Newren <new...@gmail.com> writes:

>> There is also another side fix in remove_split_index() that causes a
>> crash when doing "git update-index --no-split-index" when base_oid in
>> the index file is null. In this case we will not load
>> istate->split_index->base but we dereference it anyway and are rewarded
>> with a segfault. This should not happen anymore, but it's still wrong to
>> dereference a potential NULL pointer, especially when we do check for
>> NULL pointer in the next code.
>>
>> Reported-by: Luke Diamand <l...@diamand.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks for digging this down and fixing it.  When I saw this split
> index bug bisect to me that my heart sank a little; there's so much of
> that code I don't understand.  Nice to see you've already come along
> and fixed it all up.  :-)

Thanks, all.

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