On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > This makes it sound as if the user is to blame, but IMHO we're just > > not checking the input well enough. > > Honesty is very good. An alternative implementation that does not hurt > performance as much as the "paranoia" would, and checks "the input well > enough" would be very welcome. Can't we rely on the mtime of the source file? Sample it before starting hashing it, then make sure it didn't change when done. 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