Re: How to pull remote branch with specified commit id?

Brad King schrieb:

Johannes Sixt wrote:

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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?

No, assuming that-branch was the only ref that contained the objects.

Even if the repack happens before the branch is deleted, the objects that
were *only* in that-branch will not be sent out.

-- Hannes