Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] setup.c: make bare repo discovery optional

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 16, 2022, 22:16 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8rr115ub.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <kl6lv8u5i5pn.fsf@chooglen-macbookpro.roam.corp.google.com>

Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com> writes:

> which I took to mean "Junio thinks that, by default, Git should stop
> walking up to find a bare repo, and thinks this is better because of
> rationale X."

The X is "it would not break existing use case too badly, just to address a 'security' story whose severity is not so clearly expressed".

> If it the latter, then I'm in favor of taking Stolee's suggestion to
> drop "cwd", since nobody else finds it useful enough. (I like the
> 'simplification' story, but not enough to push "cwd" through, especially
> since it does quite little security-wise.)

As long as you'll be there to answer the angry mob that complain loudly (and irritatingly enough, the only do so after a release is made to flip the default), I do not care too much either way ;-).

Thanks.