From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:06:56 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive: let remote clients get reachable commits Message-ID: <7vfw0odxz3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130222172710.GB17475@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > How are you proposing to verify master~12 in that example? Because > during parsing, it starts with "master", and we remember that? By not cheating (i.e. using get_sha1()), but making sure you can parse "master" and the adornment on it "~12" is something sane. That is why I said "this is harder than one would naively think, but limiting will make it significantly easier". I didn't say that it would become "trivial", did I?