Re: [PATCH] {fetch,receive}-pack: skip sha-1 integrity test on objects from new pack

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2012, 03:46 UTC
Message-ID: <7vwr6lgqcc.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A-W97Jd+8FOk1zWbDoTPb=RwO6Ck37O73v7DRrR+M5ew@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> What about remote helpers?

What about them? Don't these foreign-vcs helpers generally create git objects on our side based on whatever data that comes from the remote foreign vcs anyway?

> Should we declare it's remote helper
> responsibility to validate all incoming objects?

It is nothing new that they must not deposit broken objects in the repository, so I do not think there is nothing that needs to be specifically pointed out.