Subject: Re: Local git server can't serve https until repos owned by http, can't serve ssh unless repos owned by user after 2.45.1

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:47:20 -0700

"David C. Rankin" <[email-masked]> writes:

>   Security enhancement in 2.45.1 have broken ability to serve git over
>   https and ssh from local git server running Apache. (web server runs
>   as http:http on Archlinux)
>
>   The fix of adding the following to gitconfig (system-wide and
>   per-user in ~/.gitconfig) does not solve the problem:
>
> [safe]
> 	directory = *

It is not clear what you exactly meant "per-user" above, so just to
make sure.  Is this set in the global configuration file for the
httpd (or whoever Apache runs as) user?

The purpose of "dubious ownershop" thing is to protect the user who
runs Git from random repositories' with potentially malicious hooks
and configuration files, so the user being protected (in this case,
whoever Apache runs as) needs to declare "I trust these
repositories" in its ~/.gitconfig file.  What individual owners of
/srv/my-repo.git/ project has in their ~/.gitconfig file does not
matter when deciding if Apache trusts these repositories.