From: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:42:07 GMT
Subject: Re: How to disable safe directories?
Message-ID: <3e4a7071-60b0-4f7a-b347-d584d5eb076e@aixigo.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8mPP_2jv8HDBdMxWv6TbiLXeDnD=KmNRMbno2bHQtfH1A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2024-05-21 10:39:32, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> 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