Re: running git as root

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Nanako Shiraishi[off-list ref] wrote:

Quoting Alex Riesen [off-list ref]:

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

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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?

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What would be the preferred way?

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

I think somebody needs to repost an old patch from the archive.

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116729/focus=118385

That's almost identical to the patch I wanted to submit, except for
the name 'SANITY', which doesn't make much sense I think.