Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901201815010.5159@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <c94f8e120901200851n21c6d67r3c43e3efd435e3db@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dilip M wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster
> <brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> >> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> >> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> >> >> not found'
> >> >
> >> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> >> > and what are the permissions on the directory?  [ ... ]
> >>
> >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
> >> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)  [ ... ]
> >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
> >>[... all looks Ok ...]
> >
> >  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
> >  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
> >  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
> >  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
> >  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
> 
> It's the same issue....Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?

I'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat() calls involving <something>/.git.

Ciao, Dscho