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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.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.