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

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not sure what you're suggesting. Here... are you suggesting random write access to a port on a device you host? Anybody can push a branch to your selfhosted repo?

Or are you talking about self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, etc.?

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[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

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

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

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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[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

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

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