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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix | 2 |
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/*) |