From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:23:01 GMT
Subject: Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon
Message-ID: <20130411222301.GA11283@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vip3shfpd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:20:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Sounds like we need a documentation update somewhere.

Yeah, I'd be happy to drop my patch if somebody wants to write a
documentation update instead.

> > 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?
> 
> Doesn't access_or_die() say
> 
>     die_errno(_("unable to access '%s'"), path);
> 
> already?  I am puzzled...

I think the point is that it could add

  ...and I was looking in /root, because that is where your HOME points.
  Shouldn't you be able to read your own HOME directory?

which should make it painfully obvious to the user what is going on.

-Peff