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Might want to let git know. It's been a part of the git source code since 2006. If there were an RCE vulnerability from using __git_ps1, one would hope it would have been found by now!

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/completion/gi...

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I was able to reproduce it using that script in my PS1 when `GIT_PS1_SHOWUNTRACKEDFILES=1` which triggers a call to `git ls-files`. Without that, it seems to be just calling `git rev-parse` which does not execute fsmonitor.

I was also able to reproduce it with `GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=1` which invokes `git diff`.

As far as I am aware, this has been brought to the attention of the git maintainers years ago: https://github.com/justinsteven/advisories/blob/main/2022_gi...

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