On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > If the pack format were to ever change or be extended in the future > there is no assurance that just because the pack file lives in > objects/pack and doesn't end in .idx that we can read and decompress > its contents properly. > > If we encounter what we think is a pack file and it isn't or we don't > recognize its version then die and suggest to the user that they > upgrade to a newer version of GIT which can handle that pack file. There are already 3 other places where the pack header and version are validated: see git-grep pack_version_ok *.c output. Maybe it would be best to abstract those tests all in one place. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html