Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] packed-backend: fsck should allow an empty "packed-refs" file
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:18:34AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>
> > It may be useful for fsck to detect this, though, even if the default
> > message severity is set to "info" or even "ignore. That would allow
> > people who know they are using modern Git to increase it themselves (I
> > don't expect normal users to do this, but it would probably be useful
> > for forges which run automated "fsck" across a lot of repos).
> >
> > And then the backwards-incompatible Git 3.0 thing would just be tweaking
> > the severity of the config (and in the meantime, it would help flush out
> > any unexpected instances people run into).
>
> I came to make a same comment but the above has everything I wanted
> to say (and more).
Yup, agreed, that sounds like a reasonable approach indeed.
Patrick