On Sunday 12 April 2009 12:31:55 Daniel Cheng wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Ian Clarke <i...@locut.us> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Matthew Toseland
> > <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 11 April 2009 15:39:54 Daniel Cheng wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I have just checked, GitHub allow "non-fast forward" update, and there
> >>> is no option to disable it. This means anybody have write access to it
> >>> might overwrite the whole repository, keeping no history behind. (for
> >>> those who are curious, google the 'git push --force').
> >>
> >> Would that be propagated when devs update their local trees via pull?
> >
> > No, apparently it would be trivial for a developer to push the history
> > back to the repository, since everyone will have a copy of the entire
> > repo history (unlike with svn).
> >
> > I think it basically means that if a developer is determined to be
> > malicious, they can definitely be a nuisance - but not cause any
> > significant loss of data.  This is probably also the case with
> > subversion, and any other source control system.
> >
> 
> If any developer do this in git, he will be discovered when next developer
> try to push any changes.

Well yes, but the more subtle attack of deleting history??

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