From: Fedor Sergeev <fedor.sergeev@sun.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:16:23 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.1.10.0804231313550.2728@theodor>
In-Reply-To: <200804231047.41315.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Robin Rosenberg wrote:

> onsdagen den 23 april 2008 09.47.57 skrev Fedor Sergeev:
>> If one manages to hack on repository one can modify it enormous amount of
>> ways, including spoofing on SHA (providing wrong contents for it - does
>> git verify that when getting a pack?), utilizing bugs in git etc...
>
> The pack transfer protocol does not transfer the SHA of objects, only the
> contents is transferred. The SHA-1 is (has to be since it is not sent)
> reconstructed on the receiving end.

Thats nice. Then I agree its difficult to spoil superproject out of 
submodule other than it just does not checkout.

regards,
   Fedor.