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This is because fetching arbitrary (maybe dangling) commits may be a security risk |
Can anybody provide a pointer on why allowing dangling commits to be fetched is a security risk? I can't seem to find any details on this. Is the risk because people assume "unreachable" means "deleted"?
nixpkgs/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
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Can anybody provide a pointer on why allowing dangling commits to be fetched is a security risk? I can't seem to find any details on this. Is the risk because people assume "unreachable" means "deleted"?