From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:34:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] config: Add safe-include directive
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
>> This adds a variant of the include directive, where only certain
>> config variables in the included files are honoured. The set of
>> honoured variables consists of those the user has mentioned in a
>> safe-include.whitelist directive, along with a small set of git.git
>> blessed ones.

Another design decision we would need to make is if it should be
allowed for a safe-included file to use safe-include directive to
include other files. Offhand I do not think of a reason we absolutely
need to support it, but there may be an interesting workflow enabled
if we did so. I dunno.