From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: encrypted repositories? Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <43d8ce650907171322y60aaa0f3na335b7a4a2fe32c1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Matthias Andree , git@vger.kernel.org To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 17 22:43:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRuGi-0004a6-Bj for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:00 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757279AbZGQUlV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757222AbZGQUlT (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:19 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43088 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757113AbZGQUlF (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:05 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n6HKehbk002477 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:40:44 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n6HKehvp007351; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:40:43 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650907171322y60aaa0f3na335b7a4a2fe32c1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.465 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, John Tapsell wrote: > > Why couldn't you have the actual code encrypted, but have the server > still know about the SHAs etc? You would expose the actual commit > structure, but that might be acceptable? Even that wouldn't really work, because you'd never be able to generate any deltas. So there would be no real advantage. In fact, there would be only disadvantages, because without any delta generation, you'd now have to actually transfer _more_ data. Linus