From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:56:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [WISH] Store also tag dereferences in packed-refs
Message-ID: <e5bfff550611200456l4bc730fcvd91c01843aeb6c64@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ejrt37$fg9$1@sea.gmane.org>

> >
> > 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.