From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:43:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [Q] Encrypted GIT?
Message-ID: <20080313174328.GA3783@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803131254580.1656@racer.site>

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55:11PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

>The latter can be remedied (somewhat) by encrypting each object 
>individually.  In that case, .gitattributes can help (you should be able 
>to find a mail to that extent, which I sent no more than 2 weeks ago).  
>However, you must make sure that the encryption is repeatable, i.e. two 
>different encryption runs _must_ result in _identical_ output.

Any decent file encryption program will never have this characteristic.
It's normally a bad idea from a security perspective.

David