From: Tommi Virtanen <tv@eagain.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:20:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git wrapper: execute git-shell when argv[1] is '-c'
Message-ID: <20080825222002.GF14930@eagain.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808260001390.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:05:21AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> I do disagree with you that it is a kludge though.  I think it makes 
> complete sense to add this to Documentation/git.txt in addition to other 
> documentation that is lacking from my patch, though:
> 
> -- snip --
> -c <command>::
> 	execute <command> in git-shell.
> -- snap --

All I'm going to say is that that's not the way you build trustable
software. You take a minimal interface and restrict untrusted users to
that, you don't add a feature to the widest possible interface..

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