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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-12-10 10:04:55 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2024-12-10 10:04:55 +0900 |
| commit | 35f40385e441d5aa885f5aa813539d5ed9dc2d26 (patch) | |
| tree | 07dbb374eaef5dbdff5a0ad6369232f975acd570 /Documentation/git-clone.txt | |
| parent | 9cd1e2e1a0350a3b6cbc4bcd268f0cbbe8c89687 (diff) | |
| parent | 0ffb5a6bf1b0fd9ce0c0b1fd9ce9fd30b89a2563 (diff) | |
| download | git-35f40385e441d5aa885f5aa813539d5ed9dc2d26.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people'
Loosen overly strict ownership check introduced in the recent past,
to keep the promise "cloning a suspicious repository is a safe
first step to inspect it".
* bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people:
Allow cloning from repositories owned by another user
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-clone.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 7acb4cb176..de8d8f5893 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ symbolic link, the clone will fail. This is a security measure to prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic links. + +This option does not work with repositories owned by other users for security +reasons, and `--no-local` must be specified for the clone to succeed. ++ *NOTE*: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the source repository, similar to running `cp -r <src> <dst>` while modifying _<src>_. @@ -384,6 +387,12 @@ $ cd my-linux $ git clone --bare -l /home/proj/.git /pub/scm/proj.git ------------ +* Clone a local repository from a different user: ++ +------------ +$ git clone --no-local /home/otheruser/proj.git /pub/scm/proj.git +------------ + CONFIGURATION ------------- |