commitBuffer: invalid arguments with funky characters in description
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Description
/tmp/tmp.7L1hIRcwlq$ niv add spacchetti/spago
Adding package spacchetti/spago
Reading sources file
Writing new sources file
Done: Adding package spacchetti/spago
/tmp/tmp.7L1hIRcwlq$ niv show spago
Showing package spago
Reading sources file
homepage:
url: https://github.com/spacchetti/spago/archive/8ce19ea5648f8bd65d6db88428bac56e66cf2560.tar.gz
owner: spacchetti
branch: master
url_template: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/archive/<rev>.tar.gz
repo: spago
type: tarball
sha256: 1mnx4y4298q94iq6x613ijak16a2i0chrp5qvrv2wzl2za63p8kb
description: niv: <stdout>: commitBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character)
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure with niv add spacchetti/spago followed by niv show spago, using the command output in the issue as the starting point. Trace the handling of the package description and commitBuffer; done means the package can be added and shown without the invalid-character error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- haskell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100