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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] fsck: check tag objects' headers
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:41:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqiol527co.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140829234327.GF24834@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:43:27 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:25:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de> writes:
>> 
>> > We inspect commit objects pretty much in detail in git-fsck, but we just
>> > glanced over the tag objects. Let's be stricter.
>> >
>> > This work was sponsored by GitHub Inc.
>> 
>> Is it only this commit, or all of these patches in the series?
>> Does GitHub want their name sprinkled over all changes they sponsor?
>
> GitHub does not really care either way. I think it is well-known that we
> sponsor some git development (i.e., pretty much everything I and Michael
> work on), and we do not need that fact sprinkled in the commit history.
>
> But we are also happy for that fact to be transparent if it changes
> people's opinions on whether the patch is a good idea (i.e., to know
> that Johannes has some motive beyond just "I think this is the right
> thing to do"; I hope he _also_ thinks it is the right thing to do or
> would not post the series, of course).
>
> Personally, I think the cover letter is a good place for such things.

Yeah, and I saw it explained in the cover.  It looked somewhat out
of place to see it duplicated only for this patch in the 6 patch
series and I was wondering if there was something special about this
specific patch, hence my question.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28 14:46 [PATCH 0/6] Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 14:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errors Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 20:43   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-28 14:46 ` [PATCH 2/6] Accept object data in the fsck_object() function Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 20:47   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 23:10     ` Jeff King
2014-08-29 23:05   ` Jeff King
2014-08-28 14:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the buffer Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 20:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 23:27   ` Jeff King
2014-08-28 14:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] fsck: check tag objects' headers Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 21:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-28 21:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 23:46       ` Jeff King
2014-08-31 22:46         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-03 22:29           ` Jeff King
2014-09-03 23:14             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-04  2:04               ` Jeff King
2014-08-29 23:43     ` Jeff King
2014-09-02 18:41       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-09-03 21:38         ` Jeff King
2014-08-28 14:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ing Johannes Schindelin
2014-08-28 14:47 ` [PATCH 6/6] Make sure that index-pack --strict fails upon invalid tag objects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 13:52 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 13:58   ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 21:07   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-10 21:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 14:20       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26   ` [PATCH v3 " Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 1/6] Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errors Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 2/6] Accept object data in the fsck_object() function Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 3/6] Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the buffer Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 4/6] fsck: check tag objects' headers Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 5/6] Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ing Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 14:26     ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Make sure that index-pack --strict checks tag objects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 17:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 21:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 21:17           ` [PATCH 0/3] hash-object --literally Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 21:17             ` [PATCH 1/3] hash-object: reduce file-scope statics Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 21:17             ` [PATCH 2/3] hash-object: pass 'write_object' as a flag Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 21:17             ` [PATCH 3/3] hash-object: add --literally option Junio C Hamano
2014-09-12  8:04           ` [PATCH v3 6/6] Make sure that index-pack --strict checks tag objects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:07     ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:07       ` [PATCH v4 1/6] Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errors Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:07       ` [PATCH v4 2/6] Accept object data in the fsck_object() function Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:07       ` [PATCH v4 3/6] Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the buffer Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:08       ` [PATCH v4 4/6] fsck: check tag objects' headers Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:08       ` [PATCH v4 5/6] Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ing Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12  8:08       ` [PATCH v4 6/6] Make sure that index-pack --strict checks tag objects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-12 18:02       ` [PATCH v4 0/6] Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects Junio C Hamano
2014-09-13  9:08         ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found] ` <cover.1410356761.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2014-09-10 13:52   ` [PATCH v2 1/6] Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errors Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 13:52   ` [PATCH v2 2/6] Accept object data in the fsck_object() function Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 13:52   ` [PATCH v2 3/6] Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the buffer Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 17:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 11:59       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 16:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-10 20:45     ` Eric Sunshine
2014-09-10 13:53   ` [PATCH v2 4/6] fsck: check tag objects' headers Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 17:52     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-10 13:53   ` [PATCH v2 5/6] Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ing Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 17:56     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 14:15       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 13:53   ` [PATCH v2 6/6] Make sure that index-pack --strict fails upon invalid tag objects Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-10 21:54     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 14:22       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-09-11 16:50         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 17:04           ` Johannes Schindelin

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