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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git security (SHA-1)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 07:54:19
Message-Id: 21534.33822.15935.463596@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git security (SHA-1) by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):
4 >> Ulrich is well-aware of that. His argument is that with cvs there
5 >> is no security whatsoever in the scm, and so there is more interest
6 >> in layering security on-top. With git there is more of a tendency
7 >> to rely on the less-than-robust commit signing system.
8 >>
9 >> We could always just keep full manifests in the tree and be no
10 >> worse off than with cvs.
11
12 > And we would be no better off than with CVS. We'd have huge
13 > repository with a lot of redundant space-eating data and the
14 > impossibility of sane merges or rebases.
15
16 Not necessarily. As long as you keep write access to the repository
17 secure, you don't need anything special there. However, it's a
18 different story when the tree is distributed via a mirror system that
19 is not entirely under our control.
20
21 Full manifests could be generated automatically (and signed with an
22 infra key) when copying the tree from the repository to the master
23 mirror.
24
25 Ulrich

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git security (SHA-1) hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: git security (SHA-1) "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>