Re: 'safe.directory' setting ignored for some operations?

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Apr 10, 2025, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <Z_hCjfoRUIDZoBfP@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <20250410213542.GA3168175@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 2025-04-10 at 21:35:42, Jeff King wrote:

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> So I think things are working as intended. You can get around it with
> either of these:
> 
>   - set the config in your user ~/.gitconfig, which will be read by the
>     child upload-pack command
> 
>   - tell clone to pass the config to upload-pack, like:
> 
>      git clone -u 'git -c safe.directory="*" upload-pack' ...

I think you can also use `git clone --no-local` in a more recent version and the normal clone-from-untrusted-repository semantics will kick in and things will work.

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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA