DVCS ripper is used to rip version-controlled systems such as SVN, Git, Mercurial/hg, and Bazaar/bzr. The tool is built in Python and is pretty simple to use. In this recipe, we will learn how to use the tool to rip the repositories.
This vulnerability exists because most of the time when using a version-controlled system, developers host their repository in production. Leaving these folders allows a hacker to download the whole source code.