From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Cc: Git Mailinglist <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:01:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496D8DC4.1060904@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496D0E65.3000200@kitware.com>
Brad King 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.
>
> 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?
No, assuming that-branch was the only ref that contained the objects.
Even if the repack happens before the branch is deleted, the objects that
were *only* in that-branch will not be sent out.
-- Hannes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 7:02 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
2009-01-14 7:01 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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