Sync with 2.30.5

* maint-2.30:
  Git 2.30.5
  setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
  git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
  t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
  git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
  t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
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Johannes Schindelin
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Git v2.30.5 Release Notes
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This release contains minor fix-ups for the changes that went into
Git 2.30.3 and 2.30.4, addressing CVE-2022-29187.
* The safety check that verifies a safe ownership of the Git
worktree is now extended to also cover the ownership of the Git
directory (and the `.git` file, if there is any).
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (1):
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765

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is set in system config and you want to re-enable this protection, then
initialize your list with an empty value before listing the repositories
that you deem safe.
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As explained, Git only allows you to access repositories owned by
yourself, i.e. the user who is running Git, by default. When Git
is running as 'root' in a non Windows platform that provides sudo,
however, git checks the SUDO_UID environment variable that sudo creates
and will allow access to the uid recorded as its value in addition to
the id from 'root'.
This is to make it easy to perform a common sequence during installation
"make && sudo make install". A git process running under 'sudo' runs as
'root' but the 'sudo' command exports the environment variable to record
which id the original user has.
If that is not what you would prefer and want git to only trust
repositories that are owned by root instead, then you can remove
the `SUDO_UID` variable from root's environment before invoking git.