Re: running git as root

2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen [off-list ref]:

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.

There is such a prerequisite already (POSIXPERM), but what caused
you to run the _tests_ as root?

What would be the preferred way?

Use the prerequisite would sound right when not the
strangeness of the idea.