Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

OK. I'll hold off for now while we stew on it. Jonathan's patch looks OK
to me, but it has the same issue. But I think every path has to be one
of:

  1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle the
     HOME situation with --user (the current behavior, or any other
     proposal that they have to opt into).

  2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME with --user, either by
     making what they want to do impossible, or making them set an extra
     variable or option to accomplish what used to work (my patch to set
     HOME with --user).

  3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
     not caught (my patch, Jonathan's patch, etc).

I think any solution will have to fall into one of those slots. So we
need to pick the least evil one, and then hammer out its least evil
form.

That summarizes our options nicely, I think.  Thanks.