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t1300: demonstrate failure when renaming sections with long lines
When renaming a configuration section which has an entry whose length
exceeds the size of our buffer in config.c's implementation of
`git_config_copy_or_rename_section_in_file()`, Git will incorrectly
form a new configuration section with part of the data in the section
being removed.
In this instance, our first configuration file looks something like:
[b]
c = d <spaces> [a] e = f
[a]
g = h
Here, we have two configuration values, "b.c", and "a.g". The value "[a]
e = f" belongs to the configuration value "b.c", and does not form its
own section.
However, when renaming the section 'a' to 'xyz', Git will write back
"[xyz]\ne = f", but "[xyz]" is still attached to the value of "b.c",
which is why "e = f" on its own line becomes a new entry called "b.e".
A slightly different example embeds the section being renamed within
another section.
Demonstrate this failure in a test in t1300, which we will fix in the
following commit.
Co-authored-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Helped-by: Jeff King <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <[email protected]>
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