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

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

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

fatal: Permission denied while accessing .git directory

does not imply we're having a git repository here at all, but rather
sounds like "We wanted to check for you if this is a git repository,
but we cannot do that as we lack permissions to do so.

So git doesn't know if it is inside a repo or not, so the actual error message
"Not a git repository" is wrong. It's just that the current permissions cannot
tell if we're in a repository or not.

Fair enough.  Patches ;-)?