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

From: Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <c94f8e120901200935t75dba11fw3ce14b4ba965c878@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq4oztgaz8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

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> "Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>  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....
>
> You didn't answer the question.

Sorry..I read it for .git directory...

.git's parent directory is owned by user who us issuing gitk command and permisssion bit of 755 is set.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld . drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 .

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .git/ drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-20 22:22 .git/

>> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?
>
> GIT_TRACE can help.

I tried with that but it didn't help for gitk. But sure, it helps with git command(s).

-- DM