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

From: Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 16:51 UTC
Message-ID: <c94f8e120901200851n21c6d67r3c43e3efd435e3db@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200901200912.14432.brian.foster@innova-card.com>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster <brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:

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> 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...?

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),1000(dm)

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .git drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .git

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -la .git total 68 drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 . drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 branches -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 20 2009-01-19 22:28 COMMIT_EDITMSG -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 256 2009-01-18 23:28 config -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 58 2009-01-18 23:24 description -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 89 2009-01-19 20:15 FETCH_HEAD -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 23 2009-01-19 21:49 HEAD drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 5280 2009-01-19 22:28 index drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 info drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 logs drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 objects -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 41 2009-01-19 20:15 ORIG_HEAD -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 153 2009-01-19 22:34 packed-refs drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 refs

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> umask 22

-- DM