From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:57:57 GMT
Subject: Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?
Message-ID: <496D0E65.3000200@kitware.com>
In-Reply-To: <496C6234.9040903@viscovery.net>

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.

Might a repack (perhaps an automatic one) put the object in a pack
(perhaps in a delta chain) that can be fetched through another ref?

-Brad