Re: [PATCH 3/3] read-cache: don't write index twice if we can't write shared index

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:00:14PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>> The test suite was run as root, no wonder why my removing write access
>>> has no effect. I got the test to pass with this, but then it fails
>>> with
>>>
>>>     Can't write .prove (Permission denied) at /usr/share/perl/5.22/App/Prove.pm line 542.
>>>
>>> Some more chown'ing or chmod'ing is required....
>
> This is the fallout of running the tests as root in the past.  With your
> patch 'prove' is run as a non-root user, but the prove state is loaded
> from Travis CI's cache, where it has been written as root the last time
> around, so now we don't have permissions to (over)write it.
>
> I have patches in the works to address this as well.