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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Guy Maurel <guy.j@maurel.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: a problem with git describe
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:39:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy1zty8dc.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
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-<.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-04-25  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-23  9:12 a problem with git describe Guy Maurel
2022-04-23 11:27 ` Philip Oakley
2022-04-23 16:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-23 23:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-25  2:01       ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-25  5:05         ` SZEDER Gábor
2022-04-25  6:03           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-25  6:39         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-04-25  7:02           ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-25  8:40             ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2022-04-25 15:11               ` Guy Maurel
2022-04-26 15:43               ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-26 15:56                 ` rsbecker
2022-04-26 16:35                 ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-26 16:46                   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-26 17:15                     ` Carlo Arenas
2022-04-26 15:45       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-26 16:25         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-26  1:52     ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-26 15:41       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-26 15:50         ` Taylor Blau
2022-04-26 15:30     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-26 15:36       ` Junio C Hamano

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