Re: Test "t0300-credentials" is failing on Arch/Artix: asks to enter the Username/Password in an infinite loop

From: Ivan Ivanov <qmastery16@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2026, 17:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CAAaskFBNBEiPW4tLRtPQqkntHFpDTgjwrx8Lqg-qax1Cb_mEhQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20260306160131.GA3577004@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Sounds reasonable, but - if there is only an issue with askpass and everything else is fine, couldn't we just execute askpass from its origin - instead of copying it to the destination ./git-test/ directory?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 7:01 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 05:14:45PM +0300, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
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> > Friends, thank you so much for your kind help! Indeed: it turned out
> > that if /dev/shm is mounted with noexec then "--root=/dev/shm" is
> > failing. If you would like to ensure that the git tests are succeeding
> > regardless of what are the mount flags on some system or what some
> > distro's packagers are doing (more portability), maybe it is possible
> > to modify the git test system - to make it so that "askpass" always
> > gets launched from a native original directory, instead of being
> > copied to some "root" place where it could fail?
>
> it would be possible to do that, but introduce a lot of complexity.
> Right now test scripts are given a single temporary scratch directory
> with a repo to do whatever they want with. If we gave each one _two_
> directories, one for putting executable things and one for repo
> operations, then the latter could be on a noexec filesystem.
>
> But why do we want to support pointing --root to a noexec filesystem in
> the first place? I think this falls into "if it hurts, don't do it".
>
> -Peff