From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:01:13 GMT
Subject: Re: input validation in receive-pack
Message-ID: <7v63yc3bcm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080102075152.GA24401@auto.tuwien.ac.at>

mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler) writes:

> Are there more refs outside "refs/", which somebody would want to push to?

As anything outside refs/ and not HEAD are subject to gc, I do
not think it should even be allowed.

But this is, as everybody should be aware, very late in 1.5.4
cycle, so I'd rather avoid bahviour change to tighten things
before post-1.5.4 opens.