From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:39:27 GMT
Subject: Re: a problem with git describe
Message-ID: <xmqqy1zty8dc.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20220425020108.5agdq6bdg6umrtbt@carlos-mbp.lan>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> At that point, though you might as well excempt root from this check

But "root" or any higher-valued account is what needs this kind of
protection the most, no?  The protection is *not* about people
knowingly accessing their own repository via "root", but those who
are in a directory without being aware of its repository-ness.  You
prepare /var/tmp/.git/ and let others do things that they would do
in /var/tmp/ throw-away directories normally and get affected by
what you leave in /var/tmp/.git/config file.  If "root" is among
these "others", that sounds like you caught a bigger fish X-<.