From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:31:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sha1_name: accept output of git-describe
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609202330190.19042@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v64figrhu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Shouldn't you also verify the leading ref (most likely a tag)
> exists (and optionally check that it precedes the commit you
> decoded into, but that is probably more expensive than it's
> worth)?

I debated this with myself. But there is the cost, and more importantly 
the possibility that your victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hother side does not have the 
tag at all (for whatever reasons).

Ciao,
Dscho