Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> - "[config] safe = section.variable" will list variables that can >> be included with the config.safeInclude mechanism. Any variable >> that is not marked as config.safe that appears in the file >> included by the config.safeInclude mechanism will be ignored. > > Why user must know which variables are safe, why it cannot be left to > Git to know which configuration variables can call external scripts?
That's a fallback to let them take responsibility for variables we do not mark as "safe"; and having that fallback mechanism lets us keep the set of variables we by default mark as safe to the absolute minimum. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
