From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:40:43 GMT
Subject: Re: encrypted repositories?
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907171337320.13838@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650907171322y60aaa0f3na335b7a4a2fe32c1@mail.gmail.com>



On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> 
> Why couldn't you have the actual code encrypted, but have the server
> still know about the SHAs etc?  You would expose the actual commit
> structure, but that might be acceptable?

Even that wouldn't really work, because you'd never be able to generate 
any deltas.

So there would be no real advantage. In fact, there would be only 
disadvantages, because without any delta generation, you'd now have to 
actually transfer _more_ data.

			Linus