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Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 27, 2005, 19:28 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0510272125580.28705@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Hi,
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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?

Ciao, Dscho

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