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GitHub Is Not Open Source, A Rant (listed.to)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, if you want to accept pull requests from anyone, you can set up a jailed git server with public access, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not a pull request, but a merge request. Besides the point though. What I'm getting at is: isn't that asking for trouble? Somebody could

while true ; do
  head /dev/urandom -c 100MB > file.txt
  git add file.txt
  git commit -m "new commit"
  git push
done

and fill up your hard drive. Also, depending on the protocol, they could try fuzzing it. Or, pipe /dev/urandom into nc and blast your git port.

And of course, the first problem is discoverability. Who's going to find your random, unfederated, git service?

It just doesn't sound like a convincing solution, IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

no, it's not specific to merge requests. theres a tool called git-shell that prevents abuse