Write safe.directory items to system git config
This is necessary for more consistent behavior across multiple
distro versions. Apparently somewhere along the way, git started
looking at the current user's home directory instead of $HOME.
Related-Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/devstack/+bug/1968798
Change-Id: I941ef5ea90970a0901236afe81c551aaf24ac1d8
diff --git a/functions-common b/functions-common
index ddef2e4..8651604 100644
--- a/functions-common
+++ b/functions-common
@@ -677,8 +677,13 @@
# about how we clone and work with repos. Mark them safe globally
# as a work-around.
#
+ # NOTE(danms): On bionic (and likely others) git-config may write
+ # ~stackuser/.gitconfig if not run with sudo -H. Using --system
+ # writes these changes to /etc/gitconfig which is more
+ # discoverable anyway.
+ #
# [1] https://github.com/git/git/commit/8959555cee7ec045958f9b6dd62e541affb7e7d9
- sudo git config --global --add safe.directory ${git_dest}
+ sudo git config --system --add safe.directory ${git_dest}
# print out the results so we know what change was used in the logs
cd $git_dest