I am not a subscriber to this mailing list, so please please CC-me on replies. I believe the recent changes for the safe ownership patch seemed to have introduced a regression. I have a git repo which is on a shared server that I trust and control. Adding a safe.directory does _not_ allow me to use this repo anymore. I can't even run a `git fetch` without an error. I have renamed the repo name and directory, but output is otherwise precise. Full logs and versions shown below: james@computer1:~/whatever$ git remote show server2 fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/home/someoneelse/whatever/.git' To add an exception for this directory, call: git config --global --add safe.directory /home/someoneelse/whatever/.git fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. james@computer1:~/whatever$ git config --add safe.directory /home/someoneelse/whatever/.git james@computer1:~/whatever$ git config --add safe.directory '*' james@computer1:~/whatever$ git fetch server2 fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/home/someoneelse/whatever/.git' To add an exception for this directory, call: git config --global --add safe.directory /home/someoneelse/whatever/.git fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. james@computer1:~/whatever$ cat .git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [remote "server2"] url = ssh://root@server2:/home/someoneelse/whatever/ fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/server2/* [safe] directory = /home/someoneelse/whatever/.git directory = * james@computer1:~/whatever$ git version git version 2.45.2 james@computer1:~/whatever$ ssh root@server2 git version git version 2.45.2 james@computer1:~/whatever$ Thanks, James @purpleidea https://purpleidea.com/ https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/