Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sorry if I wasn't clear. "." is considered safe with "safe.directory = > *" but I was looking at why it was not considered safe when using > repository paths in safe.directory. Ahh, OK. We tell them /home/wood/repo/git is a good repository to visit, but daemon's call to ensure_valid_ownership() asks "I am in the '.' directory; does that match /home/wood/repo/git?" That sucks. I agree with your idea that we'd need to canonicalize both before comparing. THanks.