From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 17:06:27 GMT
Subject: Re: BUG: Wrong error message when access to .git directory denied
Message-ID: <xmqqwpzrcnzg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZPTpJjLsKSd6E8vQ0HFuSeCH5Hr_LBhSjx9=SQdQhOBQ@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

>> So "Not a git repository" is the best Git can say.
>
> fatal: Permission denied while accessing .git directory
>
> does not imply we're having a git repository here at all, but rather
> sounds like "We wanted to check for you if this is a git repository,
> but we cannot do that as we lack permissions to do so.
>
> So git doesn't know if it is inside a repo or not, so the actual error message
> "Not a git repository" is wrong. It's just that the current permissions cannot
> tell if we're in a repository or not.

Fair enough.  Patches ;-)?