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From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:57:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <496D0E65.3000200@kitware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496C6234.9040903@viscovery.net>

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.

Might a repack (perhaps an automatic one) put the object in a pack
(perhaps in a delta chain) that can be fetched through another ref?

-Brad

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 22:07 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 [this message]
2009-01-14  5:54     ` thestar
2009-01-14  7:02       ` Johannes Sixt
2009-01-14  7:01     ` Johannes Sixt

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