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Re: running git as root

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 13, 2009, 17:49 UTC
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2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>:
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> 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?

> What would be the preferred way?

Use the prerequisite would sound right when not the strangeness of the idea.

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