From: Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:42:44 GMT
Subject: Re: running git as root
Message-ID: <3a3d9e520906131842j6754bda1yaf6ecb2b24320260@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A33C8D2.5080808@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Michael J
Gruber<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Marco Nelissen venit, vidit, dixit 13.06.2009 17:25:
>> 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.
>> What would be the preferred way?
>
> The preferred ways is to build git as non-root user. This is true even
> more so for running the test suite.

This is not possible on BeOS, where there is only one user, and it is
the super user.