Re: [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 18:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtytee7ff.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201002181114.19984.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> This makes it sound as if the user is to blame, but IMHO we're just
> not checking the input well enough.

Honesty is very good. An alternative implementation that does not hurt performance as much as the "paranoia" would, and checks "the input well enough" would be very welcome.

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