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Re: hitting home directory's parent

From
Daniel Convissor <danielc@analysisandsolutions.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2009, 04:42 UTC
Message-ID
<20090823044202.GA10761@panix.com>
In-Reply-To
<fcaeb9bf0908220920g29ec24e9v23d0504d10ca6cfb@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Duy:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:20:39PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Daniel
> Convissor<danielc@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
> > Hi Duy:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:10:18AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> >>
> >> I guess it tried to find .git directory upward. I think you can set
> >> GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to make it stop at /home/danielc. Excerpt from
> >> git.txt
> >
> > That didn't change the situation.
> 
> I'd suggest you to degrade Git to a version earlier than 1.6.1, when
> the error was not added. :-D
:)  Might be easier to use "svn ci" instead. :)
> But did it at least change the error message? Here is what I got when
> "chmod 000 /tmp/a":
No.  It produced the same exact error message:
    fatal: Cannot change to /home/danielc/..: Permission denied
Thanks,
--Dan
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  1. Daniel ConvissorAug 21, 2009
  2. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 22, 2009
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  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 22, 2009
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 22, 2009
  6. Jeff KingAug 22, 2009
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 23, 2009
  8. Jeff KingAug 25, 2009
  9. Daniel ConvissorAug 23, 2009
  10. Jeff KingAug 25, 2009
  11. Daniel ConvissorAug 23, 2009

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