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Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id fc7e4e88 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:40:29 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] config: honor file permission bits Message-ID: References: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 07:54:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt 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