From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:40:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] C implementation of the 'git' program.
Message-ID: <7vveyzskdk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3lkzv4qnz.fsf@harinath.blr.novell.com>

Raja R Harinath <rharinath@novell.com> writes:

> This is bad, since it does the wrong thing for the correct way:
>
>   make prefix=/usr
>   sudo make prefix=/usr install
>
> With your patch 'git' will be compiled as root.

You are correct.

We should allow building as user and installing as root, with
the installation step _not_ touching the build directory at all.
A good litmus test is that you should be able to build and
install from a root-squashed NFS mounted working tree, without
giving write permissions to NFS-nobody user (obviously you need
to give read and search permissions).

Andreas?