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git non-intrusive clone

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LCLuca Di Carlo <luca@dicarlo.email>
Date
Oct 7, 2026, 08:40 UTC
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Hey everyone, I am reading more and more blog posts about job interviews that require the people to git clone a malicious repo with commands executed using git hooks. I wonder if we could have a `git clone --non-intrusive ...` That would disable all git settings set within the repo. Maybe by adding a `.nogitconfig` file or something, so that the developers remember that because of this file, he cannot push or fetch, or use any `.git/` defined stuff. 

I hope this is the right channel, sorry if it's not.

Thank you for all your work, Kind regards Luca

Cordialement Luca Di Carlo

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