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authorJon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths@yahoo.com>2016-02-23 02:15:41 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-02-23 12:56:27 -0800
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credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
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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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
index 89b730632d..96208f822e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
@@ -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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