From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 15:29:54 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: Wrong error message when access to .git directory denied
Message-ID: <xmqq1thzfll9.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150529104743.6220a11f@outerspace.dyndns.org>

Jonas Berlin <xkr47@outerspace.dyndns.org> writes:

> Severity: Low
> Impact: Confusion

;-)

> Git version: 1.9.1
>
> If I don't have permissions to access the .git folder of a non-bare
> git repository, I get the following output:
>
>   fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>
> Expected output:
>
>   fatal: Permission denied while accessing .git directory

But the thing is, .git being unreadable simply means we do not know
if it is a .git directory, or a random directory that does not have
anything to do with Git that happens to have that name.

So "Not a git repository" is the best Git can say.