Re: [TENTATIVE PATCH] Complain loudly, dying, when a ref is invalid

Hi,

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Not that the current loop is any better for that purpose.  We
silently ignore not just dangling ref and ref not storing
40-byte hex, but files starting with a period '.',  names longer
than 255 bytes, and unreadable ones, all of which we would
probably want to warn about in such a tool.

Okay, how about 'fprintf(stderr, "Warning: ...\n"); continue;' instead of 
'die("...");' then?

Ciao,
Dscho