From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:10:43 GMT
Subject: Re: get git not to care about permissions
Message-ID: <200911121710.44314.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <3cf217d80911120744g5e020003rc00c460fff0bff1d@mail.gmail.com>

Matt Schoen wrote:
> error: Unable to open
> /ad/eng/courses/ec/ec464/ec464-team03/test.git/HEAD.lock for writing
> 
> ls -al in the directory gives me:
> total 12
> drwx------ 3 schoen root 4096 Nov 12 10:41 .
> d--------- 7 root   root 4096 Nov 12 10:41 ..
> -rwx------ 1 schoen root    0 Nov 12 10:41 HEAD.lock

At least in my current copy, this can only come from

	// lock.c:1371
	lockpath = mkpath("%s.lock", git_HEAD);
	fd = open(lockpath, O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_WRONLY, 0666);
	if (fd < 0) {
		error("Unable to open %s for writing", lockpath);

It prints an absolute path, so the open() also accesses an absolute
path (though I don't know why it insists on that).

But the above directory listing would indicate that you do not even
have permission to look inside your $(pwd) by absolute path...

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch