Jeff King wrote: > I could go either way. I think 96b9e0e is the right thing to do > conceptually, but I kind of doubt it was affecting all that many people. > And though it's _possible_ for it to be a security problem, I find it > much more likely that the site admin tries to set some config, gets > annoyed when it doesn't work, and debugs it. So from a practical > perspective, 96b9e0e may be doing more harm than good, even though it's > the right thing. Ok. By the way, another commit to blame is v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 (config: warn on inaccessible files, 2012-08-21), which made it into a warnable offense instead of just a strange but accepted configuration. ;-) I'm still leaning toward keeping v1.7.12.1~2^2~4 and 96b9e0e as being worth it, though I could be easily swayed in the other direction (for example via a patch by an interested user with documentation that explains how to debug and makes it unlikely for the behavior to keep flipping in the future). Thanks for spelling out the trade-offs. Sincerely, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html