Re: git-daemon: needs /root/.config/git/config?

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:10:25PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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However, since changing user id and leaving $HOME is so common, there is
a patch under consideration to loosen the check only for the case of
EACCES on files in $HOME. That commit is 4698c8f (config: allow
inaccessible configuration under $HOME, 2013-04-12); it's not yet in any
released version of git, though.

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I've a PHP script in ~/public_html that runs git. Without the mentioned
patch, the script bails out due to this error. This time it's Apache
that gets me into trouble because at the time the PHP script and git
run, $HOME is still /root, but the user identity is not root anymore.
The patch is direly needed; without it, I need to use 'env
HOME=/home/j6t /usr/local/bin/git' in my script.

I could be remembering wrong, but I thought it was not so much "under
consideration" as "accepted for 1.8.4".  I haven't heard any
compelling reasons not to apply it.

Would it would make sense against earlier releases as well?

Yeah, I think it would. I only said "under consideration" because I saw
that it was in "next" and not elsewhere, and did not hunt down the exact
status in "What's Cooking".

Sorry about that; it is in 'master' but "What's cooking" for that
pushout hasn't been published yet (the description of what I did
yesterday will be rolled into today's issue together with the
description of what I did today at the end of day).