Re: safe.directory warnings for root-owned repositories

From: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date: Oct 31, 2024, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <ZyPi4xdGPwfa9+ez@nand.local>
In-Reply-To: <ZyN03D8os53XJGDo@mertle>

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 08:15:24AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

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> On 2024-10-31 05:38:00, Caleb White wrote:
> >
> > The dubious ownership check simply reports that the directory is owned by
> > someone other than the user running the command, with no special handling
> > for the root user. While the error might not make the most sense in this
> > context, I'm not sure that it's worth special-casing the root user
> > (really the user with id = 0 as it might not be named `root`) in the
> > implementation.
> >
> > Why would you initialize a repository as `root` in the first place?
>
> To avoid the dubious ownership warning, obviously :)

If you want to avoid the warning entirely, you can set 'safe.directory' to "*" at the global level, and that will opt-out of the check entirely.

Of course, you should consult that portion of the git-config(1) manual page to understand the implications of doing so, but it is something that Git supports doing.

Thanks, Taylor