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Re: How to disable safe directories?

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HDHarald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com>
Date
May 21, 2024, 10:42 UTC
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On 2024-05-21 10:39:32, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I've got a big DoS on my hands since safe directories landed on
> Fedora. I think this commit is the one responsible, but I may be
> mistaken: <https://github.com/git/git/commit/8959555cee7e>.
> 
> At this point I've wasted enough time on them. Now I would like to
> disable them completely.
> 
> How do I disable the safe directory changes?
>

That is actually pretty easy: Kick out the commit. I would suggest to turn the die() into a warning(), though, giving people time to adopt this restriction.

Regards
Harri
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