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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation symlink restrictions for .git* files
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 18:53:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201026225300.GA23128@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bb54778-507c-2e3f-d35a-5e32edb8bee7@iee.email>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:18:18PM +0000, Philip Oakley wrote:

> > +NOTES
> > +-----
> > +
> > +Note that Git does not allow the `.gitmodules` file within a working
> > +tree to be a symbolic link, and will refuse to check out such a tree
> > +entry. This keeps behavior consistent when the file is accessed from the
> > +index or a tree versus from the filesystem, and helps Git reliably
> > +enforce security checks of the file contents.
> >  
> >  EXAMPLES
> >  --------
> The text looks good to me, with security point explicitly mentioned just
> for .gitmodules file.
> 
> However, is placing the Note so far down appropriate (.gitattributes and
> .gitignore), given that there is within the descriptions a discussion of
> the priority order for finding those files?

Definitely a "NOTES" section should go in that spot, but possibly the
text should be in the "DESCRIPTION" section. I was worried about
cluttering that early part with a detail that most people wouldn't care
too much about.

Looks like my patch is in 'next'; do you want to propose a patch moving
it around on top?

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05  7:17 [PATCH 0/7] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:19 ` [PATCH 1/7] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:44   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:20     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:29       ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  7:19 ` [PATCH 2/7] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:46   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  7:19 ` [PATCH 3/7] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:50   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:24     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:34       ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:49         ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:53   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:30     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:38       ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  7:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] t0060: test obscured .gitattributes and .gitignore matching Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:03   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:40     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 21:20       ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-06 14:01         ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] verify_path(): disallow symlinks in .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:09   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 12:07     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:25 ` [PATCH 7/7] fsck: complain when .gitattributes or .gitignore is a symlink Jeff King
2020-10-05  8:12   ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:53     ` Jeff King
2020-10-05  7:32 ` [PATCH 0/7] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05  8:58   ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t0060: test obscured .gitattributes and .gitignore matching Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] verify_path(): disallow symlinks in .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-27  3:35     ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-27  7:58       ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 22:00         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-28  9:41           ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 23:43         ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-28 19:18           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-05 12:16   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] fsck: complain when .gitattributes or .gitignore is a symlink Jeff King
2020-10-06 20:41   ` [PATCH v2 0/8] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Junio C Hamano
2020-10-20 23:19   ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-23  8:17     ` [PATCH] documentation symlink restrictions for .git* files Jeff King
2020-10-23  8:27       ` Jeff King
2020-10-26 22:18       ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-26 22:53         ` Jeff King [this message]
2020-10-26 23:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-27  7:26             ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 18:45               ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-27 21:00                 ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-28 19:14                   ` Junio C Hamano

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