Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Documentation: explain how safe.directory works when running under sudo

From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 30, 2022, 14:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20220430141516.u5yeznmmbxwaki44@carlos-mbp.lan>
In-Reply-To: <YmzUirQlDR1942rH@debian.me>

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 01:17:46PM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

Show 10 quoted lines

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 03:58:51AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
> > In a previous patch, the behavior of git was changed so it will be able
> > to find the "effective uid" that is required when git was invoked with
> > sudo to root, for example the internal calls made to git when calling
> > the following in git's own repository:
> > 
> >   $ sudo make install
> >
> 
> That is building Git, right?

Technically, installing it. The full report is more informative of what the specific impact is, which I obviously forgot to link to:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220412180510.GA2173@szeder.dev/

Another example of it (which started this whole regression fix) is available in:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/4ef9287b-6260-9538-7c89-cffb611520ee@maurel.de/

Carlo