While I understand the need for the recent changes (even if I'd prefer they be limited to turning off any
filter/script/custom alias/etc. support) - there is one piece of the new behavior that could be improved for usability:
If you do a 'git status' in the directory - you get the "helpful" response:
root@server:/local/APPNAME/bin# git status
fatal: unsafe repository ('/local/APPNAME' is owned by someone else)
To add an exception for this directory, call:
git config --global --add safe.directory /local/APPNAME
However, if you do a 'git diff' - such as what you might naturally do right before attempting a 'git commit' - you do
NOT get any useful response:
root@SERVER:/local/APPNAME/bin# git diff
warning: Not a git repository. Use --no-index to compare two paths outside a working tree
usage: git diff --no-index [<options>] <path> <path>
...snip-long-diff-help...
Please consider a small improvement to have the git diff help output (if displayed due to the repo exclusion warning) -
ALSO display the 'git config' suggestion at the end of the output, instead of me having to remember - oh, go issue
status to get the command hint to go set the exclusion. Would also be useful to have the git diff output do the same
'unsafe repository' message about ownership.
In case it matters for why I'm hitting this - server with various different application accounts. All maintained by a
trusted list of users, but separated into different users for permissions isolation between the apps/repos/etc. Often
edit/commit/etc. as other root or as other users (when facl's are being used). Running 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.3 on ubuntu
20.04 in case this is already addressed in upstream and just not included in ubuntu repackaging.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger nneul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Neulinger Consulting (573) 612-1412
