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Re: [PATCH] fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 15, 2009, 17:19 UTC
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> The reason for this patch is that we published some repositories publicly
> a week or two ago and one such malicious person started attacking all our
> public servers with the usernames found in the commit messages.

Interesting. Do you also worry about the names on committer and author lines?

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Message 4 of 13 in “fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing them”
  1. fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing themAndreas Ericsson, Apr 15, 2009
  2. Michael J GruberApr 15, 2009
  3. Andreas EricssonApr 15, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2009
  5. Andreas EricssonApr 15, 2009
  6. Johannes SixtApr 15, 2009
  7. Andreas EricssonApr 15, 2009
  8. fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing themAndreas Ericsson, Apr 15, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2009
  10. Andreas EricssonApr 15, 2009
  11. fetch: Strip usernames from url's before storing themAndreas Ericsson, Apr 17, 2009
  12. Andreas EricssonApr 20, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 20, 2009

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