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[PATCH] git-version: Handle invalid arguments gracefully

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net>
Cc: 40643 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40643] [PATCH] git-version: Handle invalid arguments gracefully
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 23:16:44 +0200

Hi Jakub,

Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net> skribis:

> * guix/git-download.scm (git-version): Add a check for commit ID length.
> ---
> If you're curious for the motivation, see [1]. This took a while to
> debug, so I'm hoping to ease this for the next person who inevitably
> stumbles upon this. Is a change like this okay?

Yes, I think so.  The ‘error’ procedure is not great, we would rather
use ‘raise’ with a ‘&message’ condition (which additionally allows for
i18n) but it’s no big deal here.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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