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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
To: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WISH] Store also tag dereferences in packed-refs
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:56:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5bfff550611200456l4bc730fcvd91c01843aeb6c64@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ejrt37$fg9$1@sea.gmane.org>

> >
> > For this particular one, there is no need for version 2.
>
> Actually, I think it is both true and untrue. True, because we need some
> indicator that we trust packed-refs file to provide tag dereferences to
> distinguish between the case when there are no tag objects at all, so there
> are no tag dereferences in packed-refs, and the situation where we use
> packed-refs generated by older git, and there are no tag dereferences in
> packed-refs because git didn't saved it.
>

We should be able to handle the ambiguous/malformed lines correctly
and gracefully _always_, without 'trust' a version number to avoid to
be prone to attacks with a malicious malformed file.

Anyway document versioning it's a common and savy practice.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-18  9:15 [WISH] Store also tag dereferences in packed-refs Marco Costalba
2006-11-18 18:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-18 18:43   ` Petr Baudis
2006-11-18 18:47     ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-18 19:04       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19  0:28         ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-19  1:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19  1:40             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19  1:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19  1:59                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19  9:40             ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-19 18:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19 19:07                 ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-19 20:09                   ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-19 20:36                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19 20:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19 21:01                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19 21:14                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19 21:24                           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-19 23:36                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-20  2:35                               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-20  9:40                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-11-20 12:56                                   ` Marco Costalba [this message]
2006-11-20 16:29                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-20 19:32                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-11-19 22:25                       ` Marco Costalba
2006-11-19 23:26                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-11-19 20:18                   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] ` <200611201154.08732.jnareb@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <7vu00u2wln.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2006-11-20 11:33     ` Jakub Narebski

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