Re: BUG: Wrong error message when access to .git directory denied

Jonas Berlin [off-list ref] writes:

Severity: Low
Impact: Confusion

;-)

Git version: 1.9.1

If I don't have permissions to access the .git folder of a non-bare
git repository, I get the following output:

  fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Expected output:

  fatal: Permission denied while accessing .git directory

But the thing is, .git being unreadable simply means we do not know
if it is a .git directory, or a random directory that does not have
anything to do with Git that happens to have that name.

So "Not a git repository" is the best Git can say.