From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:33:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] Tolerate broken headers in `packed-refs` files
Message-ID: <20180326143340.GA23926@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <f8d0f3b6-69b3-ba42-c39c-551814caf335@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 09:08:04AM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:

> Since most heavily-used tools that didn't spawn Git processes use LibGit2 to
> interact with Git repos, I added Ed Thomson to CC to see if libgit2 could
> ever write these bad header comments.

Ed can probably answer more definitively, but I dug in the libgit2
history a little, and I think it has only ever generated correct
"pack-refs with:" lines.

Ditto for JGit, though there it blames down to 1a6964c82 (Initial JGit
contribution to eclipse.org, 2009-09-29). I didn't dig further into the
historical JGit repository, but I think that's probably far enough to
feel good about it.

-Peff