RE: [BUG] fatal: transport 'file' not allowed during submodule add

From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2022, 20:15 UTC
Message-ID: <000001d91c8b$6a26cd60$3e746820$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqilhwp5g4.fsf@gitster.g>

On December 27, 2022 10:34 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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><rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
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>> As of 2.39.0, I am now getting fatal: transport 'file' not allowed
>> when performing a submodule add after a clone -l. The simple reproduce
>> of this
>> is:
>> ...
>> This happens for any submodule add on the same system. Some online
>> research indicates that there was a security patch to git causing
>> this, but I can't find it. This does not seem correct to me or how this

improves

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>security.
>> Help please - this is causing some of my workflows to break.
>
>Thanks for reporting, Randall.
>
>This suspiciously sounds like what a1d4f67c (transport: make

`protocol.file.allow`

>be "user" by default, 2022-07-29) is doing deliberately.  Taylor, does this

look like a

>corner case the 2.30.6 updates forgot to consider?

Any updates on this? Neither protocol.file.allow=always nor protocol.allow=always gets past the error condition.

Thanks, Randall