From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:42:23 GMT
Subject: Re: 'safe.directory' setting ignored for some operations?
Message-ID: <20250410224223.GA3191424@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Z_hCjfoRUIDZoBfP@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 10:13:33PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> On 2025-04-10 at 21:35:42, Jeff King wrote:
> > So I think things are working as intended. You can get around it with
> > either of these:
> > 
> >   - set the config in your user ~/.gitconfig, which will be read by the
> >     child upload-pack command
> > 
> >   - tell clone to pass the config to upload-pack, like:
> > 
> >      git clone -u 'git -c safe.directory="*" upload-pack' ...
> 
> I think you can also use `git clone --no-local` in a more recent version
> and the normal clone-from-untrusted-repository semantics will kick in
> and things will work.

Yeah, that's true in v2.48.0 and later. (I tried it after writing the
earlier email and was a little puzzled that it works with --no-local but
not otherwise, but it sounds like that's known).

-Peff