Re: [WISH] Store also tag dereferences in packed-refs
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- Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 20, 2006, 12:56 UTC
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- <e5bfff550611200456l4bc730fcvd91c01843aeb6c64@mail.gmail.com>
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- <ejrt37$fg9$1@sea.gmane.org>
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> > > > For this particular one, there is no need for version 2. > > Actually, I think it is both true and untrue. True, because we need some > indicator that we trust packed-refs file to provide tag dereferences to > distinguish between the case when there are no tag objects at all, so there > are no tag dereferences in packed-refs, and the situation where we use > packed-refs generated by older git, and there are no tag dereferences in > packed-refs because git didn't saved it. >
We should be able to handle the ambiguous/malformed lines correctly and gracefully _always_, without 'trust' a version number to avoid to be prone to attacks with a malicious malformed file.
Anyway document versioning it's a common and savy practice.