From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:18:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Checks added for CVE-2018-11235 too restrictive?
Message-ID: <20180704081857.kgoiniydk44ooq6v@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180703223030.xds2bfgeuaa35isj@glandium.org>

On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 07:30:30AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> That being said, I'm not even sure this particular use case is worth a
> new feature. I'm not storing random stuff as gitlinks, I'm storing
> sha1s. Well, maybe a mode that makes the distinction between "git oid"
> and "external oid" might make things clearer for git itself, especially
> for fsck.

Actually, I'm also abusing the lower bits of the gitlink mode, to
differentiate between regular files, executable files, and symlinks.

Mike