On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 17:33 +0100, Péter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> If I do a "git commit", issue git operations, and at the end, issue a "rm <the_git_dir>", is there any guarantee that my >> filesystem will be "clean", > > No. > >> i.e. not polluted or otherwise modified by some git command? Are the git operations >> restricted to the repo-directory (and possibly remote places, over network)? > > No. > >> Do the git-directory behaves as it were >> chroot-ed or be a sandbox? (Yet another words: is the git-directory isolated from the rest of the local filesystem (and >> packaging system)?) > > And no :) > > Most git commands will not touch anything outside the main worktree and > the .git directory in there, but commands like 'git worktree' can be > used to create worktrees anywhere in the filesystem, and when you play > tricks with the GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable, you can do other > nasty things. Or a more common thing, implemented earlier in Gits career: git config --global ....
