Re: "fatal: index-pack failed" on git-clone

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Jul 9, 2009, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <4A55AD6E.8080200@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090709063735.GA22544@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 09.07.2009 08:37:

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> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 03:48:15PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>> However, if Fritz runs 'sudo /usr/local/bin/git clone ...', then the interim 
>>> PATH is "/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/libexec/git-core:/bin:/usr/bin" because 
>>> this time setup_path() finds a non-empty argv0_path, and the command works.
>>
>> Ahh, that is what I was missing.
>>
>> As I said elsewhere already, I personally do not think sudo is worth
>> supporting compared to the cost of this kind of pain resulting from its
>> misguided "safety" brokenness, but apparently it is widely used.  I think
>> what Peff suggests in this thread might be a reasonable workaround.
> 
> Yes, I find sudo's restrictions silly, considering that most people use
> it to allow arbitrary code execution, which is why I wrote this some
> time ago:
> 
>   http://peff.net/tinysu/
>

:)

I think writing "tinysu" is really the best statement one can make about "sudo"... although "sudoh" would have been the most appropriate name...

Your patch is welcome, of course, and also removes the somewhat surprising special role played by "git-add".

Michael