From: Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: running git as root
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a3d9e520906131842j6754bda1yaf6ecb2b24320260@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A33C8D2.5080808@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Michael J
Gruber<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Marco Nelissen venit, vidit, dixit 13.06.2009 17:25:
>> 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?
>
> The preferred ways is to build git as non-root user. This is true even
> more so for running the test suite.
This is not possible on BeOS, where there is only one user, and it is
the super user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-14 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-13 15:25 running git as root Marco Nelissen
2009-06-13 15:42 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-06-14 1:42 ` Marco Nelissen [this message]
2009-06-13 17:49 ` Alex Riesen
2009-06-14 1:41 ` Marco Nelissen
2009-06-14 6:08 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-06-14 21:40 ` Marco Nelissen
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