Re: receive.denyNonNonFastForwards not denying force update

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 21, 2012, 02:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMK1S_gKWYxSBi5EpBJ3JZhPnqaGD=UoozVzUAKfjBG0CycvQg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> John Arthorne <arthorne.eclipse@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> For all the details see this bugzilla, particularly comment #59 where we
>>>> finally narrowed this down:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343150
>>>
>>> What does "at the system level" in your "does *not* work at the
>>> system level." exactly mean?
>>
>> "git config --system receive.denynonfastforwards true" is not honored.
>>  At all.  (And I checked there was nothing overriding it).
>>
>> "--global" does work (is honored).
>>
>> Tested on 1.7.11
>
> Thanks, and interesting.

Uggh.  My fault this one.

I had a very tight umask on root, and running 'git config --system' created an /etc/gitconfig that was not readable by a normal user.

Running strace clued me in...

John: maybe it's as simple as that in your case too.

Junio/Brandon/Jeff: sorry for the false corroboration of John's report!