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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Roberto Tyley <roberto.tyley@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: commit-message attack for extracting sensitive data from rewritten Git history
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:03:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5163AF2C.2020107@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130408215457.GB11227@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 4/8/2013 23:54, schrieb Jeff King:
> Yeah, it would make sense for filter-branch to have a "--map-commit-ids"
> option or similar that does the update. At first I thought it might take
> two passes, but I don't think it is necessary, as long as we traverse
> the commits topologically (i.e., you cannot have mentioned X in a commit
> that is an ancestor of X, so you do not have to worry about mapping it
> until after it has been processed).

Topological traversal is not sufficient. Consider this history:

     o--A--o--
    /     /
 --o--B--o

If A mentions B (think of cherry-pick -x), then you must ensure that the
branch containing B was traversed first.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-07 23:17 commit-message attack for extracting sensitive data from rewritten Git history Roberto Tyley
2013-04-08 15:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-08 21:54   ` Jeff King
2013-04-09  6:03     ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2013-04-09 17:01       ` Jeff King
2013-04-09 18:08         ` Roberto Tyley

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