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| author | Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com> | 2022-08-03 05:07:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Adam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com> | 2022-08-03 05:07:34 -0700 |
| commit | c8a1838d30fc1f7606b74ada544c73e8a868c0eb (patch) | |
| tree | 7aba5c4cd8fa4596d3bc8ac4b3aa605a95e8f7f0 /pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix | |
| parent | 7fe922b3582af42aedf05228d10702cb7d184293 (diff) | |
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fetchgit: remove "security" from comment about "security risk"
Closes #178410
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix index 84f2278db29..3bc93ce263f 100644 --- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ in /* NOTE: fetchgit has one problem: git fetch only works for refs. - This is because fetching arbitrary (maybe dangling) commits may be a security risk + This is because fetching arbitrary (maybe dangling) commits creates garbage collection risks and checking whether a commit belongs to a ref is expensive. This may change in the future when some caching is added to git (?) Usually refs are either tags (refs/tags/*) or branches (refs/heads/*) |