Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] ref: add regular ref content check for files backend

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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.