On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:17:15AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I am somewhat against outright removing the capability to write out > invalid objects deliberately from these low level tools, because we > would need a way to easily reproduce bugs in end-user facing tools > by other people who claim to produce Git objects, but I would agree > that by default that should be forbidden. > > In other words, two things must happen; improve checks when these > low level debugging aid tools are creating objects, and allow > bypassing these additional checks with "--experiment" option or > something. Yeah, definitely. I had imagined it as "--strict" and "--no-strict", with flipping the default to "--strict" at some point (I do not see a reason anybody would not want it in normal use, but if we are worried, we can even go slowly on flipping the default). -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