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Re: shared GIT repos

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Sep 27, 2005, 10:29 UTC
Message-ID
<pan.2005.09.27.10.29.32.813139@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To
<20050927135903.6b20a76b.vsu@altlinux.ru>
Hi, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
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> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:45:13 +0200 Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
>> > If one has commit privileges, then one can already do enough
>> > harm to the project without being able to remove objects nor
>> > updating a ref with non-fast-forward ref.
>> 
>> But in that case it's traceable what happened and whodunit.
> 
> Don't forget that the user who has rights to invoke git-receive-pack
> can set the "author" and "committer" fields in his commits to anything
> he wants - unless you check these fields in hooks/update.

Sure. I plan to; "committer" at least should match one of the user's known email addresses. In addition to that, the files will belong to the user.

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  20. hared GIT repos (was Re: rsync deprecated but promoted?)Matthias Urlichs, Sep 27, 2005
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  23. Sergey VlasovSep 27, 2005
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