On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:06:57PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:47 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > That said, it might make for easier debugging if the reftables file > > declares the size it assumes. > > If there is a mismatch in size, the reftable will look completely > corrupted data. I think this will be a bad experience. Yes, but I think it would take a bunch of other failures to get there. And it's true of all of the other parts of Git, too; the master switch is a config setting that says "I'm a sha-256 repository". That said, I'm not at all opposed to a header in the reftables file saying "I'm a sha-256 reftable". We shouldn't ever see a mismatch there, but that's what I meant by "easier debugging". -Peff
