> It's usage is to prevent accidental corruption in the everyday usage of git (the sort that mercurial appears to have been prone to in the past), not to protec

> It's usage is to prevent accidental corruption in the everyday usage of git (the sort that mercurial appears to have been prone to in the past), not to protect against a malicious adversary with write access to the filesystem. I have evidence that people in practice use it to protect against just this sort of thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7003900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7003900