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diff --git a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt index 7685e36..b614969 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitnamespaces.txt @@ -61,22 +61,4 @@ For a simple local test, you can use linkgit:git-remote-ext[1]: git clone ext::'git --namespace=foo %s /tmp/prefixed.git' ---------- -SECURITY --------- - -Anyone with access to any namespace within a repository can potentially -access objects from any other namespace stored in the same repository. -You can't directly say "give me object ABCD" if you don't have a ref to -it, but you can do some other sneaky things like: - -. Claiming to push ABCD, at which point the server will optimize out the - need for you to actually send it. Now you have a ref to ABCD and can - fetch it (claiming not to have it, of course). - -. Requesting other refs, claiming that you have ABCD, at which point the - server may generate deltas against ABCD. - -None of this causes a problem if you only host public repositories, or -if everyone who may read one namespace may also read everything in every -other namespace (for instance, if everyone in an organization has read -permission to every repository). +include::transfer-data-leaks.txt[] |