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authorEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>2014-05-06 00:17:14 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-05-06 19:23:58 (GMT)
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config: preserve config file permissions on edits
Users may already store sensitive data such as imap.pass in .git/config; making the file world-readable when "git config" is called to edit means their password would be compromised on a shared system. [v2: updated for section renames, as noted by Junio] Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
index 9673593..ba41bc9 100755
--- a/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
+++ b/t/t1300-repo-config.sh
@@ -1154,4 +1154,14 @@ test_expect_failure 'adding a key into an empty section reuses header' '
test_cmp expect .git/config
'
+test_expect_success POSIXPERM,PERL 'preserves existing permissions' '
+ chmod 0600 .git/config &&
+ git config imap.pass Hunter2 &&
+ perl -e \
+ "die q(badset) if ((stat(q(.git/config)))[2] & 07777) != 0600" &&
+ git config --rename-section imap pop &&
+ perl -e \
+ "die q(badrename) if ((stat(q(.git/config)))[2] & 07777) != 0600"
+'
+
test_done