Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] bugreport: print contents of alternates file

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On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 04:57:01PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi Emily,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> 
> > In some cases, it could be that the user is having a problem with an
> > object which isn't present in their normal object directory. We can get
> > a hint that that might be the case by examining the list of alternates
> > where their object may be stored instead.
> 
> Doesn't this open the possibility of leaking project's (possibly NDA'ed) names?
> 
> I could imagine that we might rather want to count the alternates, and
> maybe separate into those alternates that actually exist and alternates
> that do not exist (which would produce a warning that the user might
> have trained themselves to ignore).

Sounds reasonable. Will do.

 - Emily



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