On Mon, 6 May 2024 at 16:03, Barak A. Pearlmutter <ba...@cs.nuim.ie> wrote: > > If it clones into /tmp the *entire* tree will either be reaped (upon > reboot) or not. > > But having just some files deleted from a git dir or git working dir > is much more dangerous, because various git commands can treat files > deleted from the working tree as deliberate changes to be committed, > and files deleted from the git dir can render it unusable.
It's not really that different, it's a variation of the same problem. I take it that git doesn't warn when cloning on tmpfs, then, so that's not an issue. tmpfiles.d snippets can be defined to cleanup on a timer _anything_, and have done so for ~15 years. Does git currently parse all installed tmpfiles.d snippets and warn if cloning on an arbitrary directory covered by one of them?
