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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/6] hash-object: use fsck to check objects
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:06:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <230201.868rhhqxp1.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d225dddc-973c-f710-9d24-cb53b26b973f@web.de>


On Sun, Jan 22 2023, René Scharfe wrote:

> Am 22.01.23 um 08:48 schrieb Jeff King:
>> We probably also should outright reject gigantic trees,
>> which closes out a whole class of integer truncation problems. I know
>> GitHub has rejected trees over 100MB for years for this reason.
>
> Makes sense.

I really don't think it does, let's not forever encode arbitrary limits
in the formats because of transitory implementation details.

Those sort of arbitrary limits are understandable for hosting providers,
and a sensible trade-off on that front.

But for git as a general tool? I'd like to be able to throw whatever
garbage I've got locally at it, and not have it complain.

We already have a deluge of int v.s. unsigned int v.s. size_t warnings
that we could address, we're just choosing to suppress them
currently. Instead we have hacks like cast_size_t_to_int().

Those sorts of hacks are understandable as band-aid fixes, but let's
work on fixing the real causes.

      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-01 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-18 20:35 [RFC/PATCH 0/6] hash-object: use fsck to check objects Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:35 ` [PATCH 1/6] t1007: modernize malformed object tests Jeff King
2023-01-18 21:13   ` Taylor Blau
2023-01-18 20:35 ` [PATCH 2/6] t1006: stop using 0-padded timestamps Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:36 ` [PATCH 3/6] t7030: stop using invalid tag name Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] t: use hash-object --literally when created malformed objects Jeff King
2023-01-18 21:19   ` Taylor Blau
2023-01-19  2:06     ` Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsck: provide a function to fsck buffer without object struct Jeff King
2023-01-18 21:24   ` Taylor Blau
2023-01-19  2:07     ` Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:44 ` [PATCH 6/6] hash-object: use fsck for object checks Jeff King
2023-01-18 21:34   ` Taylor Blau
2023-01-19  2:31     ` Jeff King
2023-02-01 12:50   ` Jeff King
2023-02-01 13:08     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2023-02-01 20:41     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-18 20:46 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/6] hash-object: use fsck to check objects Jeff King
2023-01-18 20:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-18 21:38   ` Taylor Blau
2023-01-19  2:03     ` Jeff King
2023-01-19  1:39 ` Jeff King
2023-01-19 23:13   ` [PATCH 7/6] fsck: do not assume NUL-termination of buffers Jeff King
2023-01-19 23:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-21  9:36   ` [RFC/PATCH 0/6] hash-object: use fsck to check objects René Scharfe
2023-01-22  7:48     ` Jeff King
2023-01-22 11:39       ` René Scharfe
2023-02-01 14:06         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]

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