Re: [PATCH 0/2] tagsize < 8kb restriction

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2.) Searching for a way to add objects to the database I spent quite a
while to find the right command. Don't you think it would be much more
intuitive having an

    git-create-object [-t <type>] [-n] [-f] [-z] [--stdin] <file> [-r
<ref-name>]

command for creating any type of object (-t blob as default).
    

No, I do not think we would want to make it too easy and relaxed
to create arbitrary object-looking thing.  Each type have
defined format and semantics, and creation of an object of each
type should be validated.  I do not want to encourage bypassing
it by introducing such a backdoor.  The backdoor is easy to
write, but I suspect it would actively harm us, instead of
helping us, by encouraging "let's build a custom type of object,
we do not care if other people would not understand it"
mentality.
  

Well, this is exactly what you have now in
    git-hash-object -w -t foo

That is why I said, all input should be validated by default. All I
proposed was
a) unify the tools in order to have less duplicate code (git-mktag,
git-mktree & git-hash-object do merely the same except for the
validating part)
b) remove the possibility to introduce unchecked objects of arbitrary
type (or only allow it with the -f = "force, use with caution"-option)

maybe I should have written "blob, tag, tree or commit" instead of
"arbitrary". I did not mean really arbitrary like it is implemented
right now in git-hash-object.

Bj