Re: a problem with git describe
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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>> Actually, not quite. when "git" runs in "sudo git", the real
>> identity has long lost, so the below would not help. Sigh.
>
> Could you help me understand what is going on exactly? How/when is `git`
> running `sudo git`? I thought the problem was that `sudo make install`
> transitively runs `git describe` with euid 0, but `getuid()` should still
> return the non-admin user's ID, no?
The first "git" is literal English meaning, refers to a person ;-)
Anybody building and installing git would do
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
and no, sudo does not leave a clue in getuid() from whom it came from.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>