On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 01:26:34PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Keep in mind that git upload-archive (a read-only command, just like > git upload-pack) also already has the same issues. Yuck. I don't think we've ever made a historical promise about that. But then, I don't think the promise about upload-pack has ever really been documented, except in mailing list discussions. -Peff