Re: [PATCH 1/2] Sanitize for_each_reflog_ent()

> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> ... 
>> > My reasoning is that invalid entries should rather be ignored than be 
>> > taken into account. So, to verify that you are not walking invalid data, 
>> > you have to parse it anyway.
>> 
>> I think that Junio was talking about the fact, that if you for example
>> do need only refname and sha1, there is no need to parse object at all.
>> If you don't need to, don't parse.
>
> And it was exactly what _I_ was talking about, too:
>
> if there are invalid entries, you ignore them. So for example, if there is 
> no timestamp and message, you don't want the osha1 or nsha1, because it is 
> an _invalid_ record.