From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:28:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510272125580.28705@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vacgu3hta.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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