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Git thee behind me, Git crit security bug!

Alex Brett

Re: Have to agree

GitHub releases some software, but as far as I am aware that bundles the official git client in, and is basically just wrapping it.

There's a pretty good summary on the github blog at https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced - but to answer your question yes it is a flaw in the official git client, that applies when run on a system with a case insensitive filesystem (e.g. NTFS)...

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