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

From
Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2009, 15:35 UTC
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:46:41PM +0530, Dilip M wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ..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'
>
> Do you have a 0027 umask?
>
> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/09/weird-git-gui-startup-problem/

Mine is dm-laptop:~> umask 22

So, that's not a issue.
-- DM
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  1. Dilip MJan 19, 2009
  2. Reece DunnJan 19, 2009
  3. Dilip MJan 19, 2009
  4. Brian FosterJan 20, 2009
  5. Dilip MJan 20, 2009
  6. Matthieu MoyJan 20, 2009
  7. Dilip MJan 20, 2009
  8. Reece DunnJan 20, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinJan 20, 2009
  10. Dilip MJan 20, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinJan 20, 2009
  12. Jing XueJan 19, 2009
  13. Dilip MJan 19, 2009

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