From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:42:10 GMT
Subject: Re: running git as root
Message-ID: <4A33C8D2.5080808@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <3a3d9e520906130825k25815c9atafde301d9fbc1da2@mail.gmail.com>

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.

Michael