Subject: bug#68810: 29.1; Recommending setting transfer.fsckObjects of git to true is not necessary

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:18:18 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:57:16 +0800
> From:  Lin Jian via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> 
> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Are you sure?
> 
> I am no expert of git.  So I am not sure.
> 
> That being said, have you read those links in my report?  My point is
> that the motivation of setting transfer.fsckObjects in [1], i.e.,
> security, is made invalid in [2] because git is secure by default.

AFAIR, we added that setting because of real problems, not because of
some theoretical concerns.