Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: >> Git 3.0 boundary might be a good time to tighten interoperability >> rules such that we won't accept anything we wouldn't have written >> ourselves (not limited to loose ref format, but this applies to >> anything on-disk or on-wire), but we'd need enough preparation if we >> want to be able to do so in the future. > > I quite like this idea. I wouldn't say that I wrote it as a devil's advocate comment, but I was hoping that somebody quote Postel in response, as the above advocates a directly opposite position, which I wouldn't usually take. > I guess another prereq for the change is to integrate `git refs verify` > with git-fsck(1), because otherwise people likely wouldn't see the new > messages in the first place. Absolutely.
