Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] read_loose_refs(): treat NULL_SHA1 loose references as broken

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On 06/03/2015 11:20 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 11:51:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:51:59PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> NULL_SHA1 is used to indicate of "invalid SHA-1" throughout our code
>>>>
>>>> s/of/an/ ?
>>>
>>> Also possibly s/invalid SHA-1/invalid ref/?
>>
>> I thought it was trying to express that we use the null sha1 as a
>> sentinel value throughout the code, no matter if the value came from a
>> ref or otherwise.
> 
> Yeah, an invalid object name, not limited to refs, is correct.
> 
> Thanks.

Thanks for all the comments. Taking them into consideration, I suggest
changing the last commit message to

--8<-----------------------------------------------------------------
read_loose_refs(): treat NULL_SHA1 loose references as broken

NULL_SHA1 is used to indicate an "invalid object name" throughout our
code (and the code of other git implementations), so it is vastly more
likely that an on-disk reference was set to this value due to a
software bug than that NULL_SHA1 is the legitimate SHA-1 of an actual
object. Therefore, if a loose reference has the value NULL_SHA1,
consider it to be broken.

Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
--8<-----------------------------------------------------------------

Since the only comments were about this one commit message, I won't send
an updated patch series to the mailing list unless you request it. You
can also get the patches from my GitHub account [1], branch
"for-each-ref-errors".

Michael

[1] https://github.com/mhagger/git

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mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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