Re: running git as root

From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2009, 06:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20090614150851.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0906131049v60cfbc9bm3fd26cc25acc2cd4@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:

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> 2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>:
>> When running as root, git fails a number of test cases that expect it
>> to fail on read-only repositories (for example 't0004-unwritable.sh').
>> I was thinking of either changing the code so that it checks
>> permissions itself when opening files as root, or add a prerequisite
>> to those test cases so that they are skipped when running as root.
>
> There is such a prerequisite already (POSIXPERM), but what caused
> you to run the _tests_ as root?
>
>> What would be the preferred way?
>
> Use the prerequisite would sound right when not the
> strangeness of the idea.

I think somebody needs to repost an old patch from the archive.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116729/focus=118385

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Nanako Shiraishi
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