Re: How to disable safe directories?

From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2024, 10:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8mNns_XiQHp3=q_tYr03Q+kR1r=2WOYha1XMp+cYs9WDQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3e4a7071-60b0-4f7a-b347-d584d5eb076e@aixigo.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 6:42 AM Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Thanks Harri.

Would that be something like safe_directories.enabled = false? If not, can you point to a setting?

Jeff