Re: "git fsck" not detecting garbage at the end of blob object files...

> On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 07:50 -0500, John Szakmeister wrote:
>> I was perusing StackOverflow this morning and ran across this
>> question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41521143/git-fsck-full-only-checking-directories/
>>
>> It was a simple question about why "checking objects" was not
>> appearing, but in it was another issue.  The user purposefully
>> corrupted a blob object file to see if `git fsck` would catch it by
>> tacking extra data on at the end.  `git fsck` happily said everything
>> was okay, but when I played with things locally I found out that `git
>> gc` does not like that extra garbage.  I'm not sure what the trade-off
>> needs to be here, but my expectation is that if `git fsck` says
>> everything is okay, then all operations using that object (file)
>> should work too.
>>
>> Is that unreasonable?  What would be the impact of fixing this issue?
>
> If you do this with a commit object or tree object, fsck does complain.
> I think it's sensible to do so for blob objects as well.