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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Eugene J." <w3techplayground@gmail.com>, 33264@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33264: Whitelist vc-follow-symlinks as a safe file variable
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 21:21:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45f11e73-7086-c5c1-a892-15ddb6e405e8@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfwzcn5p.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>

On 15.07.2019 18:50, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> The doc string says that a nil is "dangerous", but doesn't say what the
> danger is

I don't understand the nature of the danger exactly as well, but I think 
the docstring means that the danger occurs when you edit _without_ 
following symlinks. Hence the default value (ask, then follow).





  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05  2:54 bug#33264: Whitelist vc-follow-symlinks as a safe file variable Eugene J.
2019-07-10 13:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 15:29   ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-07-15 15:50     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 16:23       ` Gustavo Barros
2019-07-15 17:34         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 18:21       ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-01-22 15:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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