Problem with test from aa9c83c2

Mike Hommey· Feb 29, 2008, 21:04 UTC · lore

Hi,

When run as root, the test added in aa9c83c2 fails, because root is allowed to remove files in unreadable and unwriteable directories. Now, the problem is that I don't know what to do with that. Should we care ?

Mike

Junio C Hamano· Feb 29, 2008, 21:36 UTC · re: Mike Hommey · lore

Re: Problem with test from aa9c83c2

Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:

> When run as root, the test added in aa9c83c2 fails, because root is allowed
> to remove files in unreadable and unwriteable directories. Now, the
> problem is that I don't know what to do with that. Should we care ?

Of course not.  You are nuts running tests as root.

If "git foo" should refuse to remove a file for revision control reason, and it does refuse correctly for a non-root user but it fails to refuse when run as root, then that is a bug and we do care about it. IOW, I am not saying you are nuts running git as root.