From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:53:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git on vagrant shared folder
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbBKzbjbg5u7A7BgnV1JF=5A+-gb0OdYs11g6kx_UQu_A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150714183215.GG7613@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

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>> A few weeks ago we weren’t able to clone and get an error: could not commit /vagrant/.git/config file. Manually we were able to change that file and also the clone command works outside the shared folder.
>
> Why are you trying to commit a file inside the .git dir? Files in that
> dir should not be commited (and I'm pretty sure there was a patch about
> this a while ago). The .git/config file for example is local to each git
> repo and should not be commited.

Actually it is considered a security risk, see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266