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

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Jan 20, 2009, 17:10 UTC
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"Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:
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>>  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.
> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?
GIT_TRACE can help.
-- 
Matthieu
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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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