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

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Ian Kumlien wrote:

quoted

Older versions of git silently ignored errors reading config files, but
it was tightened in v1.8.1.1, as there can be quite serious implications
to failing to read expected config (e.g., imagine transfer.fsckobjects,
or receive.deny* is ignored).

Yes, i agree, it's suboptimal but I for one would use getpwuid to get
the home directory of the executing user to avoid this - though i don't
know how portable it is (or if there is any other issues)

We considered having git-daemon's "--user" option do that, but:

  1. It would be a regression for people who are intentionally setting
     HOME to get different config profiles. And it would be a surprise
     to admins, as other user-switching daemons (e.g., inetd) do not
     tweak HOME.

  2. It would not have covered all cases, including yours. xinetd is the
     one doing the user-switching here.

-Peff