Re: [RFC/PATCH] config: honor file permission bits

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 07:54:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
> 
> > What I wonder is what makes our config file so special compared to
> > everything else that uses lockfiles. Or put differently: if we think
> > it's important to honor permissions bits (which I think is sensible),
> > shouldn't we do that in a central location like in "lockfile.c" so that
> > all users of this interface behave the same?
> 
> The $HOME/.gitconfig file and its XDG counterparts are the only
> out-of-tree files that suffer from this issue, and being outside the
> repository is what makes them special.  Theoretically, /etc/gitconfig
> on a multi-user system could have the same issue, but the containing
> directory would typically be read-only for regular users, which makes
> the issue irrelevant there.

That explanation makes sense to me. Probably something to put into the
commit message :)

Thanks!

Patrick