From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 05:16:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Tree with leading '0' modes in 1.7.0.3
Message-ID: <7vvdci2vk8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100327013443.GE10910@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> But GitHub's approach here seems to be "Meh, its fine, don't worry
> about it".
>
> Its *NOT* fine.  But Avery and Junio might disagree with me.  :-)

Did I ever say it is _fine_?  I thought I said "complain loudly".

That would at least give poor jgit users who have hit such a corrupted
object a chance to get a controlled notice and ask for help (and get an
insn to recover with filter-branch that appeared in this thread).