Merge branch 'fixes/2.45.1/2.44' into jc/fix-2.45.1-and-friends-for-maint

* fixes/2.45.1/2.44:
  Revert "fsck: warn about symlink pointing inside a gitdir"
  Revert "Add a helper function to compare file contents"
  clone: drop the protections where hooks aren't run
  tests: verify that `clone -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null` works again
  Revert "core.hooksPath: add some protection while cloning"
  init: use the correct path of the templates directory again
  hook: plug a new memory leak
  ci: stop installing "gcc-13" for osx-gcc
  ci: avoid bare "gcc" for osx-gcc job
  ci: drop mention of BREW_INSTALL_PACKAGES variable
  send-email: avoid creating more than one Term::ReadLine object
  send-email: drop FakeTerm hack

config.c

@@ -1416,19 +1416,8 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value,
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.attributesfile"))
 		return git_config_pathname(&git_attributes_file, var, value);
 
-	if (!strcmp(var, "core.hookspath")) {
-		if (ctx->kvi && ctx->kvi->scope == CONFIG_SCOPE_LOCAL &&
-		    git_env_bool("GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE", 0))
-			die(_("active `core.hooksPath` found in the local "
-			      "repository config:\n\t%s\nFor security "
-			      "reasons, this is disallowed by default.\nIf "
-			      "this is intentional and the hook should "
-			      "actually be run, please\nrun the command "
-			      "again with "
-			      "`GIT_CLONE_PROTECTION_ACTIVE=false`"),
-			    value);
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.hookspath"))
 		return git_config_pathname(&git_hooks_path, var, value);
-	}
 
 	if (!strcmp(var, "core.bare")) {
 		is_bare_repository_cfg = git_config_bool(var, value);