bug: Commit throws fatal ownership error without explanation

[David Hillman <davidahillman@gmail.com>]

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Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

        Attempted to commit a change.

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

        Commit should have been applied.

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

        Git threw a fatal error with the following malformed message, 
which fails to identify the file(s) with problematic ownership.

"[master 3e58b1d] Updated sans comment
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/srv/git/projects.git'
To add an exception for this directory, call:

        git config --global --add safe.directory /srv/git/projects.git
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.  "


What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

        If git throws a fatal error due to improper file ownership, it 
must report the offending file(s) so the user can correct the issue.  It 
is never acceptable to die and leave behind a mystery as to the cause.

        At an absolute minimum, the error message must report the 
expected ownership that was not found, not the vague and useless 
characterization of "dubious ownership".  "Dubious ownership" might be 
fine for a warning, but is unacceptable for a fatal error.  In other 
words, this error message should be as follows:

"fatal: The following files have incorrect ownership.

     file /srv/git/projects.git/example/path/to/file/one.pl is owned by 
user123541, should be user434892

     ... [ repeat as necessary ]

"




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[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.43.0
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Apr 20 
00:40:06 UTC 2024 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 13.2
libc info: glibc: 2.39
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash


[Enabled Hooks]
not run from a git repository - no hooks to show




-- 
David Hillman