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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mktree: multiple same-named objects
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:17:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk35uezd0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140827051341.GB32141@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:13:41 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:41:57AM -0400, David Turner wrote:
>
>> git mktree seems to allow the creation of a tree object with multiple
>> objects of the same name but different SHAs.
>
> Yeah, I don't think we do many quality checks there. Ditto for "git
> hash-object".

I am somewhat against outright removing the capability to write out
invalid objects deliberately from these low level tools, because we
would need a way to easily reproduce bugs in end-user facing tools
by other people who claim to produce Git objects, but I would agree
that by default that should be forbidden.

In other words, two things must happen; improve checks when these
low level debugging aid tools are creating objects, and allow
bypassing these additional checks with "--experiment" option or
something.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-27 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27  4:41 mktree: multiple same-named objects David Turner
2014-08-27  5:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2014-08-27 21:48   ` David Turner
2014-08-27  5:13 ` Jeff King
2014-08-27 15:17   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-08-27 16:24     ` Jeff King

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