From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Frey Subject: Re: Cutting history Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:43:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20100710064304.GA15600@foursquare.net> References: <20100710032553.GB554@nibiru.local> <4C37F24E.30407@workspacewhiz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: weigelt@metux.de, git@vger.kernel.org To: Joshua Jensen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 10 08:54:40 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXTxP-0003BK-UN for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:54:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751502Ab0GJGyf (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:54:35 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:40390 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751397Ab0GJGye (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:54:34 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 677 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:54:34 EDT X-Originating-Ip: 216.16.235.2 Received: from localhost (nic.NetDirect.CA [216.16.235.2]) by rubicon.netdirect.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6A6h456016119; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:43:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C37F24E.30407@workspacewhiz.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 10:08:46PM -0600, Joshua Jensen wrote: > Your post reminded me of this: http://progit.org/2010/03/17/replace.html Wow. This is what I get for not following git development more closely. :-) Doesn't this open a potential security problem? Suppose you want to pull from another developer's repo, and he's replaced some of the history in your own tree. According to the above article, it is possible to share replacements, presumably like any other ref. Is it possible to have your own branch history "replaced" by fetching someone else's repo into a remote branch? - Chris