Subject: [PATCH v2 0/8] safe.bareRepository: default to "explicit" with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES

From: "Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:38:28 +0000

This supersedes my earlier series [*1*] which took the approach of adjusting
individual tests to access bare repositories explicitly.

As Junio suggested [*2*], this series instead takes the approach of setting
safe.bareRepository=all in the test environment's global config whenever
WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES is in effect, so that existing tests continue to work
without individual modifications.

Implementing this turned out to require a number of follow-up adjustments,
because writing to $HOME/.gitconfig has side effects beyond the intended
setting: $HOME is the trash directory, which doubles as the test
repository's working tree, so the file shows up in ls-files and status
output, and tests that manipulate $HOME/.gitconfig for their own purposes
can clobber or remove the setting. Patches 2 through 7 address these
interactions in the affected test scripts.

The final patch flips the safe.bareRepository default to "explicit" under
WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES.

Footnote [*1*]:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

Footnote [*2*]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/

Changes since v1:

 * Made it compatible with Patrick Steinhardt's set -e work.

Johannes Schindelin (8):
  test-lib: allow bare repository access when breaking changes are
    enabled
  t7900: do not let `$HOME/.gitconfig` interfere with XDG tests
  t1300: remove global config settings injected by test-lib.sh
  t1305: use `--git-dir=.` for bare repo in include cycle test
  t5601: restore `.gitconfig` after includeIf test
  ls-files tests: filter `.gitconfig` from `--others` output
  status tests: filter `.gitconfig` from status output
  safe.bareRepository: default to "explicit" with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES

 Documentation/BreakingChanges.adoc            | 24 +++++++++++++++++
 Documentation/config/safe.adoc                | 10 +++++--
 setup.c                                       |  4 +++
 t/t0035-safe-bare-repository.sh               | 10 +++++--
 t/t1300-config.sh                             |  7 +++++
 t/t1305-config-include.sh                     |  4 +--
 t/t3000-ls-files-others.sh                    |  4 +++
 t/t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh            |  3 +++
 t/t3002-ls-files-dashpath.sh                  |  2 ++
 t/t3009-ls-files-others-nonsubmodule.sh       |  1 +
 ...common-prefixes-and-directory-traversal.sh |  3 ++-
 t/t5601-clone.sh                              |  4 ++-
 t/t7060-wtstatus.sh                           |  3 +--
 t/t7061-wtstatus-ignore.sh                    | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
 t/t7064-wtstatus-pv2.sh                       |  1 +
 t/t7104-reset-hard.sh                         |  2 +-
 t/t7508-status.sh                             |  4 +++
 t/t7521-ignored-mode.sh                       |  1 +
 t/t7900-maintenance.sh                        | 12 +++++++--
 t/test-lib-functions.sh                       |  8 ++++++
 t/test-lib.sh                                 | 13 +++++++++
 21 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

base-commit: 94f057755b7941b321fd11fec1b2e3ca5313a4e0
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2098%2Fdscho%2Fsafe-bare-repo-default-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2098/dscho/safe-bare-repo-default-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2098

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  62707b4109 ! 1:  179fcf5369 test-lib: allow bare repository access when breaking changes are enabled
     @@ Commit message
          `--exclude-standard` or `git status --ignored`; those are addressed
          by subsequent commits.
      
     +    The `.git/info/exclude` write is guarded by `test -d .git/info`
     +    rather than using `mkdir -p`, because some tests (e.g. t0008)
     +    expect to create `.git/info/` themselves and would fail with
     +    Patrick Steinhardt's `set -e` preparation (ps/test-set-e-clean) if
     +    the directory already existed. For tests using `TEST_NO_CREATE_REPO`
     +    (where no `.git/` exists at all), the guard also handles that case.
     +
          [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
      
          Original-patch-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
     @@ t/test-lib.sh: cd -P "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" || BAIL_OUT "cannot cd -P to \"$TRASH_DI
      +if test -n "$WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES"
      +then
      +	git config --global safe.bareRepository all &&
     -+	echo "/.gitconfig" >>.git/info/exclude
     ++	# Only write to .git/info/exclude when the directory exists
     ++	# (i.e. when git init created the repo). If we mkdir -p it
     ++	# ourselves, tests that expect to create .git/info/ themselves
     ++	# (e.g. t0008) would fail.
     ++	if test -d .git/info
     ++	then
     ++		echo "/.gitconfig" >>.git/info/exclude
     ++	fi
      +fi
      +
       start_test_output "$0"
 2:  d9a2e76f3c = 2:  4dc5151e59 t7900: do not let `$HOME/.gitconfig` interfere with XDG tests
 3:  9c10e72eed = 3:  7d68155805 t1300: remove global config settings injected by test-lib.sh
 4:  092ec11621 = 4:  5ff48e0892 t1305: use `--git-dir=.` for bare repo in include cycle test
 5:  3aca302275 = 5:  ed7294ace3 t5601: restore `.gitconfig` after includeIf test
 6:  ef57244778 = 6:  556db0eabe ls-files tests: filter `.gitconfig` from `--others` output
 7:  56fe902644 = 7:  ac4da79eac status tests: filter `.gitconfig` from status output
 8:  64db45e385 = 8:  73bb1aa171 safe.bareRepository: default to "explicit" with WITH_BREAKING_CHANGES

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