From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:32:21 GMT Subject: Re: Intricacies of submodules Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1208461808.26863.129.camel@goose.sun.com> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > > Are you saying that a *remote* in-tree .gitconfig would be capable of > affecting *local* system before the end of the clone operation? No. But what do you do after a "git clone". Do you, for example, do something like "git log -p" to actually see the commits? And what happens if that runs an external diff viewer script that just happens to do a "rm -rf $HOME"? See? The .git/config file allows you to set those kinds of things. They should *not* be things you download! Linus