On 08/21/2014 02:29 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Use GPG signed git tags to assure provenance, and the repository can be safely cloned. Rsyncing a git repo is like rsyncing a CVS or Subversion reository. Even small changes in the midst of the rsync operation can corrupt the underlying database.
the objects are checsum'd - the whole underlaying fabric of git is based on hash's, a corruption in content would be fairly easy to notice.