From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:49:07 GMT
Subject: Re: running git as root
Message-ID: <81b0412b0906131049v60cfbc9bm3fd26cc25acc2cd4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3a3d9e520906130825k25815c9atafde301d9fbc1da2@mail.gmail.com>

2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>:
> 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.