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Re: hitting home directory's parent

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 22, 2009, 16:22 UTC
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On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy<pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> But did it at least change the error message? Here is what I got when
> "chmod 000 /tmp/a":
>
> /tmp/a/b/c $ cd ../..
> bash: cd: ../..: Permission denied
> /tmp/a/b/c $ git --help
> fatal: Cannot change to '/tmp/a/b/c/..': Permission denied
> /tmp/a/b/c $ GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES=/tmp/a/b git --help
> fatal: Cannot come back to cwd: Permission denied
Note: I tested it on Linux, not Cygwin so the behavior may differ.
-- 
Duy
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  3. Daniel ConvissorAug 22, 2009
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 22, 2009
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 22, 2009
  6. Jeff KingAug 22, 2009
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 23, 2009
  8. Jeff KingAug 25, 2009
  9. Daniel ConvissorAug 23, 2009
  10. Jeff KingAug 25, 2009
  11. Daniel ConvissorAug 23, 2009

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