Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] archive: optionally add "virtual" files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2022, 06:25 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfson706p.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <b05f916c-4b04-4db6-d203-10be0a8eb615@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

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>> The verifier has a tarball.  In addition, the verifier knows the
>> object name of the Git tree object the tarball was taken from, and
>> somehow trusts that the object name is genuine.  We can do either
>> "untar + git-add . && git write-tree" or its equivalent to see how
>> the contents hashes to the expected tree (or not).
> ...
> Right, but the tree hash does not directly allow to see which objects
> are tracked or not.

Ah, of course---it was silly of me to overlook this obvious fact X-<. So we do need some extra "manifest" to declare what's untracked etc., if we allow --add-file etc. to munge the tree when creating a tarball out of it.

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