From: Brian Foster Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:12:13 GMT Subject: Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo. Message-ID: <200901200912.14432.brian.foster@innova-card.com> In-Reply-To: On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn wrote: > > 2009/1/19 Dilip M : > >> ..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- -- “How many surrealists does it take to | Brian Foster change a lightbulb? Three. One calms | somewhere in south of France the warthog, and two fill the bathtub | Stop E$$o (ExxonMobil)! with brightly-coloured machine tools.” | http://www.stopesso.com