Re: What's up with the GIT archive on www.kernel.org?

On 9/11/05, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

There is such an anonymous server, btw: "git-daemon" implements anonymous
access much more efficient than rsync/http. Sadly, kernel.org still
doesn't offer it (but it's now used in the wild, ie I've done a couple of
merges with people running the git daemon).

Should the git daemon take a look at objects/info/alternates to check
that if it exists, it
points to a repository that also has a "git-daemon-export-ok" file?  
I don't see that this
could be used for anything nasty, but it does provide a loophole where
the daemon may
open files outside the initial repository ... so a sanity check seems in order.

-Tony