diff --git a/roles/copr/dist_git/files/gitconfig b/roles/copr/dist_git/files/gitconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3f46d259c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/dist_git/files/gitconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[safe]
+    # Disable safe.directory security check for the whole system. This is not
+    # ideal but it is not possible to recursively mark our whole storage as safe
+    # and we cannot manually mark every repository as safe because we have too
+    # many of them. See https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr/issues/3266
+    directory = *
diff --git a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
index d5c3aa94b5..7f029a2409 100644
--- a/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/dist_git/tasks/main.yml
@@ -163,3 +163,6 @@
   tags:
     - config
     - cron
+
+- name: install /etc/gitconfig file
+  copy: src="gitconfig" dest="/etc/gitconfig"