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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery•net>
To: thestar@fussycoder•id.au
Cc: Brad King <brad.king@kitware•com>, Git Mailinglist <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:02:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496D8E0C.5060701@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114165447.qdlwqqfnk4goccgg@webmail.fussycoder.id.au>

thestar@fussycoder•id.au schrieb:
>> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>> Consider this: You accidentally push a branch with confidential data
>>> to a
>>> public repository. You notice it early, and quickly delete the branch
>>> using 'git push the-repo :refs/heads/that-branch'. At this time the
>>> objects with the confidential data are still lingering in the public
>>> repository. But with the current behavior noone can access them even if
>>> the SHA1 happens to be known.
> 
> Doesn't this line of reasoning only apply to the ssh and git transports?
>  (ie, the file and rsync transport would retrieve it regardless)

You are right. Http and rsync would happily ship the object.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13  9:08 How to pull remote branch with specified commit id? Emily Ren
2009-01-13  9:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-01-13 13:15   ` Emily Ren
2009-01-13  9:43 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-01-13 21:57   ` Brad King
2009-01-14  5:54     ` thestar
2009-01-14  7:02       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-01-14  7:01     ` Johannes Sixt

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