From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:36:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 7/8] history: create squashed commits without editing
Message-ID: <xmqq7blo7o98.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <f34669ad-9157-4f13-a3c1-c0abbc660497@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> I've just had a quick look at that other thread, it would be more 
> convincing to me if there was some explanation of the security issues 
> that accepting uppercase object ids causes. While I appreciate brian may 
> not be able to talk about specific vulnerabilities in particular 
> products, it would help to outline the security issues in general terms.

In any case, I do not see any new use of istarts_with() in the patch
to deliberately allow upppercase hexadecimal.  It is not like there
is an existing machinery that has generated uppercase hexadecimal
for a long time and we need to support their output, or anything
like that.