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Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon

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W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Date
Apr 11, 2013, 20:03 UTC
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<20130411200330.GA15667@odin.tremily.us>
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:54:34PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I also have a suspicion that your patch makes things worse for
> people who are more adept at these issues around running daemons
> than the people who introduced this problem in the first place (eh,
> that's "us")…
> 
> A trade off to make things slightly easier for one sysadmin by
> making another thing impossible to do for another sysadmin does not
> sound like a good one.

As one of the less experienced folks tripped up by this issue, I think that setting HOME explicitly before invoking the daemon is simple enough (which is why I just fixed my invocation and didn't post to the list). The difficulty was figuring out why the daemon was dying in the first place (which involved bisection for me as well). Maybe there could be an additional note about HOME to flesh out:

  fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied

when there's an EACCES error for the per-user config? On the other hand, the code to handle this might be more trouble than it's worth.

Cheers, Trevor

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  2. W. Trevor KingApr 10, 2013
  3. Mike GalbraithApr 11, 2013
  4. Jeff KingApr 11, 2013
  5. Mike GalbraithApr 11, 2013
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2013
  7. Jeff KingApr 11, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederApr 11, 2013
  9. Jeff KingApr 11, 2013
  10. Jonathan NiederApr 11, 2013
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2013
  12. W. Trevor KingApr 11, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2013
  14. Jeff KingApr 11, 2013
  15. W. Trevor KingApr 12, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  17. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  19. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  20. Mike GalbraithApr 12, 2013
  21. W. Trevor KingApr 12, 2013
  22. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  24. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  25. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  27. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  28. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  29. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  30. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  31. config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOMEJonathan Nieder, Apr 12, 2013
  32. Jeff KingApr 12, 2013
  33. fixup! config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOMEJonathan Nieder, Apr 12, 2013
  34. config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOMEJonathan Nieder, Apr 12, 2013
  35. Mike GalbraithApr 13, 2013
  36. Jason A. DonenfeldMay 25, 2013
  37. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2013
  38. Mike GalbraithApr 12, 2013
  39. Jeff KingApr 11, 2013

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