Johannes Sixt wrote: > Consider this: You accidentally push a branch with confidential data to a > public repository. You notice it early, and quickly delete the branch > using 'git push the-repo :refs/heads/that-branch'. At this time the > objects with the confidential data are still lingering in the public > repository. But with the current behavior noone can access them even if > the SHA1 happens to be known. Might a repack (perhaps an automatic one) put the object in a pack (perhaps in a delta chain) that can be fetched through another ref? -Brad -- 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