Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning

Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by jholman on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:49PM (#26406832)

I can never remember what they are, though. To avoid this problem, I think I wrote them down on a post-it, but I had too many post-its on my desk so I got rid of them all, and now I can't remember.

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by llarsson on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:04AM (#26408295)

The two most difficult ones are naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. HTH. ;)

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by Xelbair on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:24AM (#26409073)

I prefer the ordered version.

three most difficult things in CS:

2) Naming Things

1) Cache Invalidation

4) off by one errors

3) Concurrency

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by csunbird on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:49AM (#26409576)

Another version, about distributed systems:

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems:

2. Exactly-once delivery

1. Guaranteed order of messages

2. Exactly-once delivery

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by Viliam1234 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:19PM (#26417845)

two most difficult things in CS:

0) naming things

1) cache invalidation

42) asynchronous callbacks

2) off by one errors

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by zaphirplane on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:26AM (#26408761)

They are likely making a joke about caching the answer

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by samb1729 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:28AM (#26408418)

What does HTH mean?

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by mattacular on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:44AM (#26410651)

"Hope this helps" (sometimes used sarcastically)

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by sgn on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:42AM (#26408506)

Hope That Help, HTH.

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by kzrdude on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:31AM (#26408786)

"Hope this helps"

I see it with HAND "have a nice day" too

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by _puk on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:12AM (#26408995)

I've always read it as "Happy To Help".

I see that's wrong, but ignorance has made the internet seem just that little bit warmer all these years!

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by gwd on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:33AM (#26409848)

I think it could probably mean "Happy to help" if said in response to a thanks of some sort. Saying it before someone has said thanks is a bit presumptuous. :-)

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:32AM (#26409475)

this reminds me I was dumpster diving at a place with lots of post-it notes and there was one that said 2HCS => whatchamacallit, CI!

what that you?

on edit: I'm going to let that 'what that you' stand because one of the hardest things about HN posts is grammatical correctitude.

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by joubert on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:53PM (#26406854)

> wrote them down on a post-it

You write it on local media and kept it on-premises?

Cloud is the new thing, I hear.

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by ampdepolymerase on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @09:37PM (#26407115)

The Post-it was but a cache.

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Re:Git: Malicious repositories can execute remote code while... by mrathys on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:08AM (#26408979)

I would consider the Post-it as persistent storage or the backup. Your memory would be the cache :D

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