From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Nick Muerdter <stuff@nickm.org>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:05:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130209010534.GC8461@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v6222xqc4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Nick Muerdter <stuff@nickm.org> writes:
>> As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home
>> directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1
>> and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an
>> intentional change?
>
> I think this was done to not just help diagnosing misconfiguration,
> but to prevent an unintended misconfiguration from causing problems
> (e.g. the user thinks user.name is set up correctly, but forbids Git
> from reading it from the configuration files, and ends up creating
> commits under wrong names).
Yes, that's right. Sometimes ignoring settings has bad consequences,
so git errors out to let the user intervene and decide whether the
inaccessible settings are important.
Thanks,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-09 1:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-09 0:40 Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1 Nick Muerdter
2013-02-09 0:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 1:05 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2013-02-09 2:33 ` Nick Muerdter
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