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.
next prev parent 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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