From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Convissor Subject: hitting home directory's parent Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:05:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20090821200503.GA19660@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 21 22:26:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MeahE-0003Ac-UI for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:26:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932607AbZHUU0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932602AbZHUU0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:24 -0400 Received: from l2mail1.panix.com ([166.84.1.75]:63695 "EHLO l2mail1.panix.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932390AbZHUU0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1281 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:26:24 EDT Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by l2mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F00192F for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from panix5.panix.com (panix5.panix.com [166.84.1.5]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E8C38E53 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:05:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: by panix5.panix.com (Postfix, from userid 14662) id 3BE7324201; Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:05:04 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi: I just installed git in my Cygwin installation for the first time. The git version is 1.6.1.2, which is the latest version they have. When I enter one of the following commands: git --help git config --global user.name "Daniel Convissor" I get this error: fatal: Cannot change to /home/danielc/..: Permission denied Though "git --version" executes fine. I've been using Cygwin for many years and no other program has ever produced this issue for me. For example, svn --help, ls --help, etc work just fine. Why is git venturing into to the home directory's parent directory? Is this a bug? If not, is this really necessary? Thanks, --Dan PS: I'm not subscribed to the list. -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409