GIT archive invocation with SHA sum

2012-08-17 Thread Manfred Rudigier
Hello, we have recently upgraded our Ubuntu server to 12.04, which comes with a newer version of GIT. However, we have noticed that git archive -remote does not work anymore by specifying the SHA sum of a commit. By seaching the mailing list I have found out that this was already discussed

Re: GIT archive invocation with SHA sum

2012-08-17 Thread Junio C Hamano
Manfred Rudigier manfred.rudig...@omicron.at writes: we have recently upgraded our Ubuntu server to 12.04, which comes with a newer version of GIT. However, we have noticed that git archive -remote does not work anymore by specifying the SHA sum of a commit. ... I have read that this

RE: GIT archive invocation with SHA sum

2012-08-17 Thread Manfred Rudigier
Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] writes: I have read that this restriction was made for some kind of security reason, and one possibility would be to add a config option on the server repo to turn off this safety check. As we manage the git repos ourselves, this would be perfectly ok