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Security of a git tree

Security of a git tree

Posted Apr 3, 2011 6:17 UTC (Sun) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Security of a git tree by vapier
Parent article: Arch Linux and (the lack of) package signing

I don't think you've heard of "git update-server-info".
It creates a few index files which speed up the job considerably.
(It's typically run from the post-update hook in the shared repository.)


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Security of a git tree

Posted Apr 3, 2011 7:37 UTC (Sun) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

Presumably he has, since git refuses to fetch over HTTP without it.

Perhaps the servers you've been connecting to use the (relatively) new "smart" HTTP support, which negotiates which objects to send using a CGI script.

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