From: Constantine <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:12:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git-clone causes out of memory
Message-ID: <2f9b8856-dacc-768d-32c2-985f5f145ba7@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr2u7uuc8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 13.10.2017 15:04, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Yeah, but perhaps Git could be smarter when rev-listing too and avoid
>> processing files or directories it has already seen?
> 
> Aren't you suggesting to optimize for a wrong case?
> 

Anything that is possible with a software should be considered as a 
possible usecase. It's in fact a DoS attack. Imagine there's a server 
that using git to process something, and now there's a way to knock down 
this server. It's also bad from a promotional stand point.