Merge pull request #185005 from amjoseph-nixpkgs/pr/fetchgit/fix-comment

NixOS · Jan 14, 2023 · 1121c8f · 1121c8f
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diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchgit/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ 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/*)