Re: Query remote repository files, blobs

[Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>]

On Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 12:02:02 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
>On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
>...
>> I am able to query for list of remote heads, and tags. I would like to
>> know if it is possible to query for information on remote files, or
>> blobs?
>
>This has been discussed a number of times, but we cannot allow that for 
>security reasons.  A blob might contain confidential information, in which 
>case the branch has to be rewritten and force-pushed.  However, that does 
>not make the blob go away, but makes it only unreachable.  Until the next 
>garbage collection kicks in, that is (which you typically cannot control).

Hmm, I thought this had been addressed by git in a different way (removing
confidential information).  A company will not be satisfied that its
proprietary information is "unreachable" in your software repository.
They want absolute assurance that the information is completely
removed.

Have I remembered wrongly --- is this still not possible with git?


Bill