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Re: Dropping '+' from fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2011, 18:39 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Suggested reading:
>
>   http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-inject-malicious-commit-to-git.html
>
> I am wondering if we are better off applying something along the lines of
> this patch, so that with the default configuration, users can notice if
> their upstream unexpectedly rewound their branches.
>
> It would produce
>
> 	[remote]
>         	url = git://.../git.git/
>                 fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>
> upon cloning from my repository, and your "git fetch" will fail because
> the pu (proposed updates) branch is constantly unwinding, but that can be
> easily fixed with
>
>
> 	[remote]
>         	url = git://.../git.git/
>                 fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
>                 fetch = +refs/heads/pu:refs/remotes/origin/pu
>
> as the explicit refspec trumps the wildcard one.

It appears that we have a glitch somewhere in the implementation. We should make the explicit refspec trump the wildcarded ones.

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  1. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2011
  3. Shawn PearceSep 1, 2011
  4. Michael J GruberSep 1, 2011
  5. Matthieu MoySep 1, 2011
  6. Shawn PearceSep 1, 2011
  7. Matthieu MoySep 2, 2011
  8. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  9. Johannes SixtSep 2, 2011
  10. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  11. Michael J GruberSep 2, 2011
  12. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2011
  14. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2011
  16. Shawn PearceSep 5, 2011
  17. Jeff KingSep 5, 2011
  18. Shawn PearceSep 5, 2011
  19. Jeff KingSep 5, 2011
  20. Shawn PearceSep 5, 2011
  21. fetch: bigger forced-update warningsJeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  22. Shawn PearceSep 7, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2011
  24. Jeff KingSep 7, 2011
  25. Thomas RastSep 7, 2011
  26. Matthieu MoySep 6, 2011
  27. Michael J GruberSep 6, 2011

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