On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Roman V. Shaposhnik wrote: > > > > Are you saying that a *remote* in-tree .gitconfig would be capable of > > affecting *local* system before the end of the clone operation? > > No. But what do you do after a "git clone". > > Do you, for example, do something like "git log -p" to actually see the > commits? > > And what happens if that runs an external diff viewer script that just > happens to do a "rm -rf $HOME"? > Good point. This is the best example (maybe the only one till now) i have seen that demostrates the bad thing of in-tree .gitconfig. So i vote for the limited in-tree .gitconfig point of Linus. -- Ping Yin -- 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
