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
next prev parent 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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