From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:42:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use child_process_init() to initialize struct child_process variables
Message-ID: <xmqq389zrguw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141103220408.GA12462@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I peeked at libgit2 and I think it does not support bundles at all yet,
> so that is safe. Grepping for "bundle" in dulwich turns up no hits,
> either.
>
> Looks like JGit does support them. I did a very brief test, and it seems
> to silently ignore a HEAD ref that has the NUL (I guess maybe it just
> rejects it as a malformed refname).
>
> We could make JGit happier either by:
>
>   1. Only including the symref magic in ambiguous cases, so that regular
>      ones Just Work as usual.
>
>   2. Including two lines, like:
>
>         $sha1 HEAD\0symref=refs/heads/master
> 	$sha1 HEAD
>
>      which JGit does the right thing with (and git.git seems to, as
>      well).

Sounds sensible, even though it looks ugly X-<.