Re: a problem with git describe

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Date: Apr 23, 2022, 11:27 UTC
Message-ID: <3d762060-b817-0246-c4a2-8eb35096cb7f@iee.email>
In-Reply-To: <4ef9287b-6260-9538-7c89-cffb611520ee@maurel.de>

Hi Guy,

On 23/04/2022 10:12, Guy Maurel wrote:

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> Hello!
>
> I am using git version 2.25.1
>
> 6-8 weeks ago I don't get any problem.
> Now I get :
> guy@renard ~/Software/uncrustify $ sudo git describe --always --dirty
> [sudo] password for guy:
> fatal: unsafe repository ('/home/guy/Software/uncrustify' is owned by
> someone else)
>
> What is to do?
>

There was a security warning noted in recent maintenance releases, see https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220414003839.1616296-2-gitster@pobox.com/ where users could be fooled to access unsafe repositories that they didn't own.

You may have received a maintenance update that makes this check now the default.

Could you check what `git version` reports?

There has also been added an escape hatch of allowing "*" for the permitted safe directories. but do check the updated manuals, and the git mailing list archive (update the search in the above link). -- Philip