From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:22:58 GMT
Subject: Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?
Message-ID: <12c511ca050912112266470d8b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509111422510.3242@g5.osdl.org>

On 9/11/05, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> There is such an anonymous server, btw: "git-daemon" implements anonymous
> access much more efficient than rsync/http. Sadly, kernel.org still
> doesn't offer it (but it's now used in the wild, ie I've done a couple of
> merges with people running the git daemon).

Should the git daemon take a look at objects/info/alternates to check
that if it exists, it
points to a repository that also has a "git-daemon-export-ok" file?  
I don't see that this
could be used for anything nasty, but it does provide a loophole where
the daemon may
open files outside the initial repository ... so a sanity check seems in order.

-Tony