Re: git-daemon not consulting ~/.gitconfig

From: Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru>
Date: Dec 4, 2024, 15:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20241204155704.sxti6mn7zyr3vmyt@carbon>
In-Reply-To: <fj5vgwmc5wtyzcxxnmcgw7whclm6qf7p5sxzh3nbao3feyutj6@daizbooxk22j>

On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:23:36AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:

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> in the logs. However, adding the config to `~gitdaemon/.gitconfig` did not
> have the desired effect. Neither did adding it to `~root/.gitconfig` and
> only `/etc/gitconfig` works.
> 
> So I checked `strace` and found that when invoked by `git-daemon`, Git
> doesn't even consult `~/.gitconfig`, and I think this may be a bug.

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Given the following passage from the docs, describing the "--user" option,

| Like many programs that switch user id, the daemon does not reset
| environment variables such as $HOME when it runs git programs, e.g.
| upload-pack and receive-pack. When using this option, you may also want to
| set and export HOME to point at the home directory of <user> before starting
| the daemon, and make sure any Git configuration files in that directory are
| readable by <user>.

the behavior does indeed look like a bug.