From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:04:55 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Merge branch 'bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people'
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Merge branch 'bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people'

Loosen overly strict ownership check introduced in the recent past,
to keep the promise "cloning a suspicious repository is a safe
first step to inspect it".

* bc/allow-upload-pack-from-other-people:
  Allow cloning from repositories owned by another user
---

35f40385e441d5aa885f5aa813539d5ed9dc2d26
diff --cc Documentation/git-clone.txt
index 7acb4cb176,5347cc5255..de8d8f5893
--- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
@@@ -63,11 -63,14 +63,14 @@@ symbolic link, the clone will fail. Thi
  prevent the unintentional copying of files by dereferencing the symbolic
  links.
  +
+ This option does not work with repositories owned by other users for security
+ reasons, and `--no-local` must be specified for the clone to succeed.
+ +
  *NOTE*: this operation can race with concurrent modification to the
 -source repository, similar to running `cp -r src dst` while modifying
 -`src`.
 +source repository, similar to running `cp -r <src> <dst>` while modifying
 +_<src>_.
  
 ---no-hardlinks::
 +`--no-hardlinks`::
  	Force the cloning process from a repository on a local
  	filesystem to copy the files under the `.git/objects`
  	directory instead of using hardlinks. This may be desirable