On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 02:04:27PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote: > $ git rev-parse --verify 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 > 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 > $ echo $? > 0 > > [...] > > I believe that "git rev-parse --verify" is meant to verify that the > argument is an actual object, and that it should reject fictional SHA1s. > (If not then the documentation should be clarified.) The same problem > also exists in 1.8.2 but I haven't checked how much older it is. I think it is only about verifying the name of the object. I.e., that you can resolve the argument to an object. It has always behaved this way; I even just tested with git v0.99. I can't think of any reason it would not be helpful to have it _also_ verify that we have the object in question. Most of the time that would be a no-op, as any ref we resolve should point to a valid object, but it would mean we could catch repository corruption (i.e., missing objects) early. Doing a has_sha1_file() check would be relatively quick. Doing a full parse_object and checking the sha1 would be more robust, but would mean that: blob=`git rev-parse --verify HEAD:some-large-file` would become much more expensive (and presumably you are about to access the object _anyway_, at which point you would notice problems, so it is redundantly expensive). -Peff -- 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