From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:42:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20121014084244.GA7190@elie.Belkin> References: <20121014000210.GA19094@elie.Belkin> <20121014000402.GB11399@elie.Belkin> <20121014062218.GB13477@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 14 10:43:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TNJn3-0001c7-R8 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:43:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751461Ab2JNIm6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:42:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:47870 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317Ab2JNIm4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:42:56 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id hz1so3990359pad.19 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:42:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=l+++Na0h5TzhHqxBlhgT6I+BB2Iw3hsoq3FhTeg7G+o=; b=HfgphbHNfQOxnZ0jfkN+quCkYvhRSSc3q7OsMQYDtDiY6IJGuPZOWTYR6lT53+Q8BA ayZzVDGNmJ9XUo6sGzlKQFQ6ZuyUpamRNKMaOi2ACvoPGrdgbYNBzPNr9Dt6WLi7wS6w HMI3OrUejNdJTDlgBlQjEgD3tnyUEFeVFdsRAnsLb4SDct0912H7gYkXqZSPpkmA1jqu ktEYMPiBIvBKHUex4f2fTKu88mdmcve5LKJbLwpGi8eQRoZK+CDHQX0Cs18iE3u0Yptl Km9TGweo5jjD+wqSRLdGhhUcrJNkqSOd62oAhAbOCUUk0KkTFmHLo43rZq2tlt8w70PP rKyQ== Received: by 10.68.233.136 with SMTP id tw8mr27769661pbc.133.1350204176143; Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elie.Belkin (c-67-180-61-129.hsd1.ca.comcast.net. [67.180.61.129]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id sj5sm7211788pbc.30.2012.10.14.01.42.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:42:55 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121014062218.GB13477@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+51 (9e756d1adb76) (2011-07-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jeff King wrote: > For example, servers may depend on /etc/gitconfig to enforce security > policy (e.g., setting transfer.fsckObjects or receive.deny*). Perhaps > our default should be safe, and people can use GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM to > work around a broken machine. Very good point. How about these patches on top? Jonathan Nieder (2): config doc: advertise GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM config: exit on error accessing any config file Documentation/git-config.txt | 8 ++++++++ config.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)