Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Nick Muerdter [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home
directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1
and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an
intentional change?

I think this was done to not just help diagnosing misconfiguration,
but to prevent an unintended misconfiguration from causing problems
(e.g. the user thinks user.name is set up correctly, but forbids Git
from reading it from the configuration files, and ends up creating
commits under wrong names).

Yes, that's right.  Sometimes ignoring settings has bad consequences,
so git errors out to let the user intervene and decide whether the
inaccessible settings are important.

Thanks,
Jonathan