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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 5f4d7939ed..64b69eeb6b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -2291,6 +2291,13 @@ transfer.unpackLimit:: not set, the value of this variable is used instead. The default value is 100. +uploadarchive.allowUnreachable:: + If true, allow clients to use `git archive --remote` to request + any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the + discussion in the `SECURITY` section of + linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for more details. Defaults to + `false`. + uploadpack.hiderefs:: String(s) `upload-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit from its initial advertisement. Use more than one diff --git a/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt b/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt index 8ae65d80c4..cbef61ba88 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-upload-archive.txt @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ implications. These rules are subject to change in future versions of git, and the server accessed by `git archive --remote` may or may not follow these exact rules. +If the config option `uploadArchive.allowUnreachable` is true, these +rules are ignored, and clients may use arbitrary sha1 expressions. +This is useful if you do not care about the privacy of unreachable +objects, or if your object database is already publicly available for +access via non-smart-http. + OPTIONS ------- <directory>:: |