Re: error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/master: Permission denied

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:29:43PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > Note the repeated use of "hopefully". :) Maybe the earlier 
> > message is too hidden to rely on. We might be able to get by 
> > with checking "errno" for ENOTDIR after trying to lock the ref 
> > and using a different message, but I don't know how portable 
> > that will be.
> 
> Hmm, that actually doesn't work. errno is properly EACCESS in your 
> example, but the D/F problem doesn't actually set errno, since it 
> is git itself, and not a failed syscall, that determines that 
> "foo/bar" is not available because "foo" exists (and git must do 
> it, because "foo" may be a packed ref).
> 
> So I think we would need to simulate the errno setting, like the 
> patch below. That should generate the hint only when it would 
> actually be useful.

it wasnt hard to figure out what's going on. So this was more of a 
FYI, not really a bug report. Maybe if someone tries to pull into a 
read-only repo the same could happen? My particular breakage (of a 
single ref being root-owned - the rest was mingo owned) is atypical 
enough to be ignored.

If there's no easy/clean solution then please ignore my report.

	Ingo