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From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>,
	Martin Koegler <martin.koegler@chello.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tag: factor out get_tagged_oid()
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 17:25:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1ffd461-7283-eeaa-6f68-778c5a35e8eb@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f44b7abc-cab1-0bd4-029a-1c84cf36ec7b@web.de>

Am 06.09.19 um 17:05 schrieb René Scharfe:
> A tag referencing an unknown object sounds strange to me.  I imagine we
> might get such a thing when the referenced object is lost (broken repo)
> or purpose-built from an attacker.  Could such a tag still be used for
> anything?  Are there other possible causes?
Forward compatibility perhaps, i.e. supporting tags (by ignoring them)
that point to a new type of object introduced by a future version.

René

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-06 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-05 19:55 [PATCH 1/2] tag: factor out get_tagged_oid() René Scharfe
2019-09-05 19:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] use get_tagged_oid() René Scharfe
2019-09-06  7:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] tag: factor out get_tagged_oid() Jeff King
2019-09-06 15:05   ` René Scharfe
2019-09-06 15:25     ` René Scharfe [this message]
2019-09-06 17:51     ` Jeff King

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