From: thestar@fussycoder.id.au
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:54:47 GMT
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Message-ID: <20090114165447.qdlwqqfnk4goccgg@webmail.fussycoder.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <496D0E65.3000200@kitware.com>

> Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> Consider this: You accidentally push a branch with confidential data to a
>> public repository. You notice it early, and quickly delete the branch
>> using 'git push the-repo :refs/heads/that-branch'. At this time the
>> objects with the confidential data are still lingering in the public
>> repository. But with the current behavior noone can access them even if
>> the SHA1 happens to be known.

Doesn't this line of reasoning only apply to the ssh and git transports?
  (ie, the file and rsync transport would retrieve it regardless)