Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > Here's a replacement patch that handles this (and just drops the ugly
>> > mallocs as a side effect).
>> >
>> > -- >8 --
>> > Subject: [PATCH] setup_git_env: copy getenv return value
>> >
>> > The return value of getenv is not guaranteed to survive
>> > across further invocations of setenv or even getenv. When we
>> > are assigning it to globals that last the lifetime of the
>> > program, we should make our own copy.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
>> > ---
>> 
>> Sigh. This mail unfortunately crossed with 64f25581 (Merge branch 
>> 'jk/xstrfmt'
>> into next, 2014-06-23) with about 20 hours of lag.
>
> Ah, sorry. I had checked yesterday that jk/xstrfmt hadn't been merged
> yet, but I didn't check when responding to Duy.

Sorry to have sighed --- crossing e-mails happen all the time.  No
need to feel sorry.

>> I'd make it relative like the attached on top of the series.  Note
>> that I tweaked the args to git_pathdup() to avoid the "are you sure
>> you want to give a variable format string to git_pathdup() which you
>> said is like printf(3)?" warning from the compiler.
>
> Both changes look good to me. Thanks for taking care of it.

Thanks.
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