From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:33:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetching SHA id's instead of named references?
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904061431020.6619@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <33f4f4d70904060513k320fb6a0ya928c714dcd11e89@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Klas Lindberg wrote:

> Is there a way to fetch based on SHA id's instead of named references?

No, out of security concerns;  imagine you included some proprietary 
source code by mistake, and undo the damage by forcing a push with a 
branch that does not have the incriminating code.  Usually you do not 
control the garbage-collection on the server, yet you still do not want 
other people to fetch "by SHA-1".

BTW this is really a strong reason not to use HTTP push in such 
environments.

Ciao,
Dscho