Trust file-content-metadata path on CVMFS when cloning for 'v55r14-patches'

Trust file-content-metadata path on CVMFS when cloning for '2024-patches'

See merge request !4874 (merged)

(cherry picked from commit 8e2e3096)

c1514274 Merge branch 'cburr/git-2.45.1-plus' into 'master'

Co-authored-by: Miroslav Saur miroslav.saur@cern.ch

PyConf/python/PyConf/filecontent_metadata.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import os
 import json
 import re
+import shlex
 import time
 import contextlib
 import subprocess
@@ -383,13 +384,12 @@ def _default_metainfo_repo():
     with _lockfile('PyConf-create-lhcb-metadata-git-repo.lock'):
         if _is_repo(repo): return repo
         log.warning('*** cloning metadata git repo into {}'.format(repo))
-        result = subprocess.run([
-            'git', 'clone', '-q', FILE_CONTENT_METADATA,
-            repo.removesuffix('/.git')
-        ],
-                                capture_output=True,
-                                text=True,
-                                check=False)
+        upload_pack_cmd = f'git -c safe.directory={shlex.quote(FILE_CONTENT_METADATA)} upload-pack'
+        cmd = ['git', '-c', f'safe.directory={FILE_CONTENT_METADATA}']
+        cmd += ['clone', '-q', '-u', upload_pack_cmd]
+        cmd += [FILE_CONTENT_METADATA, repo.removesuffix('/.git')]
+        result = subprocess.run(
+            cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, check=False)
         if result.returncode == 0: return repo
         log.warning('*** failed to clone metadata git repo into {}: {}'.format(
             repo, result.stderr))