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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal: server-advertised config options
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:27:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqr1ras1bn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200910014520.GJ241078@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2020 01:45:20 +0000")

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> ...  We've seen security
> problems in the past with .gitmodules multiple times because it's
> server-sent config (in the repository).

Exactly.  For some reason some people still seem to think that it is
wasteful that we force users to approve/reject copying from .gitmodules
to .git/config and push to read and use settings directly from the
former---I think it is a huge mistake.

> As a result, I'm very much opposed to allowing any config options to be
> copied from the server.

+1.

> It's also the standard approach that every project uses already, and it
> has the benefit that the user can inspect it at their leisure before
> running it.

+100 ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-10  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07 16:52 Proposal: server-advertised config options Drew DeVault
2020-09-07 18:49 ` Christian Couder
2020-09-07 18:49   ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-07 18:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-07 19:23   ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-07 20:52     ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-08 14:14       ` Drew DeVault
2020-09-10  1:45         ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-10  4:27           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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