From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:45:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid
Message-ID: <7voe5a1yft.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510272125580.28705@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Not that the current loop is any better for that purpose.  We
>> silently ignore not just dangling ref and ref not storing
>> 40-byte hex, but files starting with a period '.',  names longer
>> than 255 bytes, and unreadable ones, all of which we would
>> probably want to warn about in such a tool.
>
> Okay, how about 'fprintf(stderr, "Warning: ...\n"); continue;' instead of 
> 'die("...");' then?

Yup.  That sounds sensible.