From: Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:41:51 GMT
Subject: Re: running git as root
Message-ID: <3a3d9e520906131841i2e67994fqf323140f95c37d5e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0906131049v60cfbc9bm3fd26cc25acc2cd4@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>:
>> When running as root, git fails a number of test cases that expect it
>> to fail on read-only repositories (for example 't0004-unwritable.sh').
>> I was thinking of either changing the code so that it checks
>> permissions itself when opening files as root, or add a prerequisite
>> to those test cases so that they are skipped when running as root.
>
> There is such a prerequisite already (POSIXPERM), but what caused
> you to run the _tests_ as root?

POSIXPERM doesn't appear to be quite right for this. For example, the
't1301-shared-repo.sh' test has the POSIXPERM prereq, but it runs fine
as root, because it merely validates that permissions are preserved.