Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.
On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> >> not found'
> >
> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> > and what are the permissions on the directory? [ ... ]
>
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm) [ ... ]
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
>[... all looks Ok ...]
repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
_of_the_directory_which_contains_ the ‘.git/’ directory?
I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
cheers!
-blf-
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