Null characters in branch name?

Rick Rankin rrankin1424+hg at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 19:23:04 UTC 2014


Interesting. That hadn't occurred to me. I did have at least one disk
failure in the laptop I was using that the time, though I don't have a
record of when the failure(s) occurred, so I can't correlate. It's
certainly a possibility, though.


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 13:32 -0700, Rick Rankin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've managed to create a branch name with null characters in it. I have
> no
> > idea how/when this happened, but I just discovered it.
>
> If you're not using server-class hardware with ECC memory, this is
> probably a hardware-level memory or filesystem error.
>
> --
> Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
>
>
>
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