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credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path

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Relative socket paths are dangerous since the user cannot generally
control when the daemon starts (initially, after a timeout, kill or
crash). Since the daemon creates but does not delete the socket
directory, this could lead to spurious directory creation relative
to the users cwd.

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jon Griffiths
2016-02-23 02:15:41 -05:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a6e5e2864f
commit bd93b8d9be
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Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
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@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ OPTIONS
cache daemon if one is not started). Defaults to
`~/.git-credential-cache/socket`. If your home directory is on a
network-mounted filesystem, you may need to change this to a
local filesystem.
local filesystem. You must specify an absolute path.
CONTROLLING THE DAEMON
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