Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > And what real life case would trigger this? Given the size of the > window for this to happen, what are your chances? > Of course the odds for me to be struck by lightning also exist. And if > I work really really hard at it then I might be able to trigger that > pathological case above even before the next thunderstorm. But in > practice I'm hardly concerned by either of those possibilities. The real life case for any of this triggers for me is zero, as I won't be mistreating git as a continuous & asynchronous back-up tool. But then that would make the whole discussion moot. There are people who file "bug reports" with an artificial reproduction recipe built around a loop that runs dd continuously overwriting a file while "git add" is asked to add it. -- 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