Silence all safe.directory warnings

tl;dr

Silence all warnings related to git’s safe.directory system. Be sure to understand what you’re doing.

git config --global --add safe.directory '*'

Long version

Adapted from this post on I cannot add the parent directory to safe.directory in Git.

I had the same issue and resolved it by disabling safe directory checks, which will end all the “unsafe repository” errors.

This can be done by running the following command¹:

git config --global --add safe.directory '*'

Which will add the following setting to your global .gitconfig file:

[safe]
    directory = *

Before disabling, make sure you understand this security measure, and why it exists. You should not do this if your repositories are stored on a shared drive.

However, if you are the sole user of your machine 100% of the time, and your repositories are stored locally, then disabling this check should, theoretically, pose no increased risk.

Also note that you can’t currently combine this with a file path, which would be relevant in my case. The command doesn’t interpret the wildcard * as an operator per say– it just takes the "*" argument to mean “disable safe repository checks/ consider all repositories as safe”.

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^{1 – If this fails in your particular terminal program in Windows, try surrounding the wildcard with double quotes instead of single (Via this GitHub issue):
git config --global --add safe.directory "*"}