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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about scm security holes
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:19:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b131003041919u6a477b46s447a6aeb18f3b393@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651003041900x66000be4s9a15ab0cde3a0fe7@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:00 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 March 2010 02:03, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> modified code would be a little more interesting.  git makes this sort
>> of thing pretty much impossible to do without it being *noticeable* at
>> least.  Traceable, not so much, because you can create a commit with
>> whatever committer/author names you want and then push them in.
>
> Which is why you simply record the username of whoever pushed them in.
>  This is what gitorious.org does etc.

Not bad, but it's still very hard to trace properly.  Imagine I pull
from a peer, then push my combined branch into the central repo.
It'll say I'm pushing in patches from me *and* my friend.  Did I forge
them or are they real?

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-04 20:09 Question about scm security holes walt
2010-03-05  2:03 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05  3:00   ` John Tapsell
2010-03-05  3:19     ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2010-03-05  4:07       ` John Tapsell
2010-03-05  3:20   ` walt
2010-03-05  3:28     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05  7:36   ` Andreas Krey
2010-03-05  9:25   ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-05 10:49     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-03-05 18:22     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-05 22:33       ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-03-05 17:47 ` Daniel Barkalow

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