From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Nelissen Subject: running git as root Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:25:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3a3d9e520906130825k25815c9atafde301d9fbc1da2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jun 13 17:26:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MFV7j-00079L-T0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:26:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760095AbZFMPZu (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:25:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756411AbZFMPZt (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:25:49 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.241]:44686 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762036AbZFMPZr (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:25:47 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so5867401and.1 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:25:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=5eUt0ybFBQOAYe7NUhJBF+zYtqPvwlMSiot3gtnRrcY=; b=JB+a7PM2OYGGl7ZNXWfgay3nZF5S+PwUutBNamZZGbfVWv1w8/ZrJvKxKW27odFm5b IXif4qdjOAQGB8ebT0kGnertKUyDlyqTc7rMj/0L/LjSbk0QFpgZM/Fp0HEQz5IjFdy4 DMUfeXSKIEEKE/MAxGlAPutkzn5DLyZ4B6H5g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NIbgB0HBclaqUAHub+g1j56jH2TuZUJZU3leyn5vjJ02Zey9q4JsHQXsNdCZYH4TRE xWsogo7DqFevW8ykse9k2xwaGUMGoLxIos18Le9QCXe3ufSZ0ibkUvn65TLAQGiHUi2f O9I15s03nuDOpvHmG3X5mT16Xn0Ofm7d+DxFA= Received: by 10.100.92.16 with SMTP id p16mr4452484anb.136.1244906747914; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:25:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Sender-Auth: d75b54de1cf61ed4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: When running as root, git fails a number of test cases that expect it to fail on read-only repositories (for example 't0004-unwritable.sh'). I was thinking of either changing the code so that it checks permissions itself when opening files as root, or add a prerequisite to those test cases so that they are skipped when running as root. What would be the preferred way?