Re: git pull works remotely but not locally

Dear Hannes

Yes, you have pinpointed it.  I installed as root, but I thought I had 
followed the other instructions (using ./configure) and did

    # make configure
    # ./configure --prefix=/opt
    # make
    # make install


In any case, I have deleted everything and reinstalled properly.  Now 
git pull is working as it should.

Thank you all for your patience and help.

Best wishes

Ivan


On 27/05/2010 20:53, Johannes Sixt wrote:

On Donnerstag, 27. Mai 2010, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
   

quoted

- I did configure with prefix=/opt
- odd thing: nothing was installed into /opt: it all went into /root (I
might have been root for the whole process, which I know is bad).  I
just cp'd everything over to /opt, and everything worked OK (until now).
     

My guess is:

- You built as root.
- I don't know what went wrong with the command that involved prefix=/opt.
- But when you finally build using 'make', it picked the default prefix, which
is /root when you are root.
- This hard-codes the libexec path to /root/libexec/git-core.
- Even after you copy the stuff to /opt, git looks in /root/libexec/...
- As a normal user you do not have access to /root, ergo, Permission denied.

Rebuild as normal user with

    make prefix=/opt

and install as root with

    make prefix=/opt install

(Yes, prefix must be given also for 'make install'.)

-- Hannes
   

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