Re: running git as root

[Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Nanako Shiraishi<nanako3@lavabit.com> wrote:
> Quoting Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>:
>
>> 2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xs4all.nl>:
>>> 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.
>>
>> There is such a prerequisite already (POSIXPERM), but what caused
>> you to run the _tests_ as root?
>>
>>> What would be the preferred way?
>>
>> Use the prerequisite would sound right when not the
>> strangeness of the idea.
>
> I think somebody needs to repost an old patch from the archive.
>
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116729/focus=118385

That's almost identical to the patch I wanted to submit, except for
the name 'SANITY', which doesn't make much sense I think.