From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:52:57 GMT
Subject: Re: permissions
Message-ID: <AANLkTimAmSxq8dC-4bnpLsvN3JabQeTO6pDTh9ds7D0D@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C0E1AB1.2030702@wpursell.net>

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:25, William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a patch.  This doesn't address the issue of a damaged
> repository, but just catches access errors and permissions.

The change looks fishy.

The patch moves the function is_git_directory at the level of user
interface where it wasn't before: it now complains and die.
Not all callers of the function call it only to die if it fails.