Re: [PATCH 4/4] config: allow including config from repository blobs

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:01:00AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > +Security Considerations
> > +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > +
> > +Because git configuration may cause git to execute arbitrary shell
> > +commands, it is important to verify any configuration you receive over
> > +the network. In particular, it is not a good idea to point `include.ref`
> > +directly at a remote tracking branch like `origin/master:shared-config`.
> > +After a fetch, you have no way of inspecting the shared-config you have
> > +just received without running git (and thus respecting the downloaded
> > +config). Instead, you can create a local tag representing the last
> > +verified version of the config, and only update the tag after inspecting
> > +any new content.
> 
> It may be a good idea to tell users the ref include.ref points to has
> been updated at the end of git-fetch. Showing a diff is even better.

I really didn't want to have to let other parts of git know or care
about this mechanism. At least not for now. In the long run, I have no
problem with some porcelain growing up around the feature to make it
simpler to use. But I'd really rather focus on the bare-bones
functionality for now, see how people use it, and then find ways to
address deficiencies in their workflows once we have data.

-Peff
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