From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:33:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added hook in git-receive-pack Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7viryqd0eo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > No I'm not. Try all the machines behind my firewall. > > Ah, that's true. Do you push into them? Yup, I do. I have this thing that I don't do backups, but I end up having redundancy instead, so I keep archives on my own machines and inside the private osdl network, for example. Also, I suspect that anybody who uses the "CVS model" with git - ie a central repository - is not likely to export that central repository any way: it's the crown jewels, after all. Open source may not have that mindset, but I'm thinking of how I was forced to use CVS at Transmeta, for example: the machine that had the CVS repo was certainly supposed to be very private indeed. In the "central repo model" you have another issue - you have potentially parallell pushes to different branches with no locking what-so-ever (and that's definitely _supposed_ to work), and I have this suspicion that the "update for dumb servers" code isn't really safe in that setting anyway. I haven't checked. Linus