From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:46:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)
Message-ID: <xmqqpoq9fotg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DyybW5kTWZ2nJ4GN=S46M9rU0EapOrR6PjSV=b1ZFrBw@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

>> Even though that single operation might be possible, do not go
>> there.  A "pathname" identifies a "path", not its contents, and
>> "appending crap after path" breaks the data model badly.
>
> I thought about that but I thought all those operations required
> special treatment for submodules anyway.

Operatins requiring special treatment does not make it right to
break the data model anyway, so...