From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:10:18 GMT
Subject: Re: hitting home directory's parent
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0908212110o5ed1233ek11183fa37b474a06@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090821200503.GA19660@panix.com>

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Daniel
Convissor<danielc@analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just installed git in my Cygwin installation for the first time.  The
> git version is 1.6.1.2, which is the latest version they have.  When I
> enter one of the following commands:
>    git --help
>    git config --global user.name "Daniel Convissor"
>
> I get this error:
>    fatal: Cannot change to /home/danielc/..: Permission denied
>
> Though "git --version" executes fine.
>
> I've been using Cygwin for many years and no other program has ever
> produced this issue for me.  For example, svn --help, ls --help, etc work
> just fine.
>
> Why is git venturing into to the home directory's parent directory?  Is
> this a bug?  If not, is this really necessary?

I guess it tried to find .git directory upward. I think you can set
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to make it stop at /home/danielc. Excerpt from
git.txt

-'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'::
        This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths.
        If set, it is a list of directories that git should not chdir
        up into while looking for a repository directory.
        It will not exclude the current working directory or
        a GIT_DIR set on the command line or in the environment.
        (Useful for excluding slow-loading network directories.)
-
Duy