Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach "git add" and friends to be paranoid

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:16:04 -0800

Thomas Rast <[email-masked]> writes:

> This makes it sound as if the user is to blame, but IMHO we're just
> not checking the input well enough.

Honesty is very good.  An alternative implementation that does not hurt
performance as much as the "paranoia" would, and checks "the input well
enough" would be very welcome.