Re: running git as root

Marco Nelissen venit, vidit, dixit 13.06.2009 17:25:

When running as root, git fails a number of test cases that expect it
to fail on read-only repositories (for example 't0004-unwritable.sh').
I was thinking of either changing the code so that it checks
permissions itself when opening files as root, or add a prerequisite
to those test cases so that they are skipped when running as root.
What would be the preferred way?

The preferred ways is to build git as non-root user. This is true even
more so for running the test suite.

Michael