From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Be more careful about updating refs
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:53:05 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4797C551.8020909@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801151546560.2806@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Perhaps more importantly, it also refuses to update a branch head with a
> non-commit object. I don't quite know *how* the stable series maintainers
> were able to corrupt their repository to have a HEAD that pointed to a tag
> rather than a commit object, but they did. Which results in a totally
> broken repository that cannot be cloned or committed on.
I actually used this for a prototype system to allow push over git://
with secure authentication via PGP; basically it used an update hook
that disallowed any ref change that wasn't a signed tag, and then in the
post-update hook, moved the tag to an audit log refspace and put the
referant commit in the refs/heads/* location.
The hooks (probably racy etc) can be seen under
http://git.utsl.gen.nz/Tangram/hooks
Sam.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-23 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 23:50 Be more careful about updating refs Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 19:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-17 9:15 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-17 10:52 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-17 11:01 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-17 12:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-17 12:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-17 13:07 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-18 1:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 2:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 2:13 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 2:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 2:33 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 2:58 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 3:18 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 3:22 ` Shawn O. Pearce
[not found] ` <20080118035700.GA3458@spearce.org>
2008-01-18 4:27 ` [PATCH] Fix random fast-import errors when compiled with NO_MMAP Linus Torvalds
2008-01-18 8:42 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-18 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-19 3:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-19 3:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-21 3:57 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 6:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-21 4:10 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-18 7:53 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-01-18 9:26 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-18 9:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 9:45 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-18 10:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-18 2:30 ` Be more careful about updating refs Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-17 10:56 ` Charles Bailey
2008-01-16 0:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-16 1:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-23 22:53 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
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