Re: Git "safe directory" not working correctly

[William Ruppel <wcruppel@gmail.com>]

FYI, I discovered that the issue appears to be related to the single
quotes. If I do this instead, then all repos are considered safe:

git config --global --add safe.directory *

And in a similar vein, to whitelist just the single repo I was having
an issue with, git itself  says the command should be:

"
To add an exception for this directory, call:
        git config --global --add safe.directory '\\bill\gitmaster\Src'
"

But, again, the single quotes don't allow this to work.

All the examples I've seen use single quotes. Has something regressed
w.r.t. to how single quotes are handled?

Thanks.

On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM William Ruppel <wcruppel@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> Upgraded to git 2.25.1.windows.1
> Now when I pull from my remote I get: fatal: detected dubious
> ownership in repository at '\\bill\gitmaster\Src'
> So, I ran this to whitelist everything: git config --global --add
> safe.directory '*'
> However, this does NOT solve the issue! I am still getting the same
> 'dubious ownership' error!
> So... what, is this some sort of bug where UNC paths are not being
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> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> Pull should succeed without security errors, since I whilelisted *
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> git craps out with a 'detected dubious ownership' error.
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> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.45.1.windows.1
> cpu: x86_64
> built from commit: 965b16798dab6962ada5b0d8cf0dca68f385c448
> sizeof-long: 4
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> feature: fsmonitor--daemon
> uname: Windows 10.0 19045
> compiler info: gnuc: 13.2
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>
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