Re: Transparently encrypt repository contents with GPG

[bigbear <urs.rau@gmail.com>]

Matthias Nothhaft wrote
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Git but I really already love it. ;-)
> 
> I would like to have repository that transparently encrypts and
> decrypts all files using GPG.
> 
> What I need is a way to automatically modify each file
> 
> a) before it is written in the repository
> b) after it is read from the repository
> 
> Is there a way to get this work somehow? Can someone give me some
> hints where I need to begin?
> 
> regards,
> Matthias
> 
> 

Have come across this on my own search for an encrypted git repo. Matthias
it looks as if somebody has come up with a "working" system that uses the
'smudge & clean' filter features of git. 
Seems to me that to use it for storing the repo on a non trusted or possibly
public git repo with some private content in the files this seems to be a
workable solution.

Transparent Git Encryption
https://gist.github.com/873637
and/or possibly 
https://github.com/shadowhand/git-encrypt

The way to do this is to use git's "smudge" and "clean" filters, but it's
not necessarily recommended for reasons that are explained here by Junio C
Hamano, the maintainer of git:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/113221






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