Re: receive.denyNonNonFastForwards not denying force update

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Sitaram Chamarty [off-list ref] writes:

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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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John Arthorne [off-list ref] writes:

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For all the details see this bugzilla, particularly comment #59 where we
finally narrowed this down:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343150

What does "at the system level" in your "does *not* work at the
system level." exactly mean?

"git config --system receive.denynonfastforwards true" is not honored.
 At all.  (And I checked there was nothing overriding it).

"--global" does work (is honored).

Tested on 1.7.11

Thanks, and interesting.

Uggh.  My fault this one.

I had a very tight umask on root, and running 'git config --system'
created an /etc/gitconfig that was not readable by a normal user.

Running strace clued me in...

John: maybe it's as simple as that in your case too.

Junio/Brandon/Jeff: sorry for the false corroboration of John's report!