On Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 12:02:02 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes: >On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Shakthi Kannan wrote: >... >> I am able to query for list of remote heads, and tags. I would like to >> know if it is possible to query for information on remote files, or >> blobs? > >This has been discussed a number of times, but we cannot allow that for >security reasons. A blob might contain confidential information, in which >case the branch has to be rewritten and force-pushed. However, that does >not make the blob go away, but makes it only unreachable. Until the next >garbage collection kicks in, that is (which you typically cannot control). Hmm, I thought this had been addressed by git in a different way (removing confidential information). A company will not be satisfied that its proprietary information is "unreachable" in your software repository. They want absolute assurance that the information is completely removed. Have I remembered wrongly --- is this still not possible with git? Bill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html