[PATCH] documentation: add git transport security notice

From: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
Date: Jul 5, 2013, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <1373013686-2137-1-git-send-email-frase@frase.id.au>

The fact that the git transport does not do any authentication is easily overlooked. For example, DNS poisoning may result in fetching from somewhere that was not intended.

Add a brief security notice to the "GIT URLS" section of the documentation stating that the git transport should be used with caution on unsecured networks.

Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
---
 Documentation/urls.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 60ba300..9c8f524 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching
 and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use
 them).
 
+The git transport does not do any authentication and should be used
+with caution on unsecured networks.
+
 The following syntaxes may be used with them:
 
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/

-- 
1.8.3.1