Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>]

2009/1/20 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
>> "Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>>  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
>>>>  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
>>>>  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
>>>>  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
>>>>  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
>>>
>>> It's the same issue....
>>
>> You didn't answer the question.
>
> Sorry..I read it for .git directory...
>
> .git's parent directory is owned by user who us issuing gitk command
> and permisssion bit of 755 is set.
>
>>> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?
>>
>> GIT_TRACE can help.
>
> I tried with that but it didn't help for gitk. But sure, it helps with
> git command(s).

So can you run git commands that modify the git tree, e.g. git add? If
these are failing, that may explain why gitk is failing, and you can
use GIT_TRACE.

Also, do you know what commands are being executed by gitk that are
causing the failure you are experiencing?

Or... is your ENV (e.g. your PATH) the same for dm and root? In
particular, can they find the git commands? This would also be visible
by not being able to do things like `git log` (or, if it is an issue
with the deprecation of the `git-foo`-style command invocation, is the
GIT_EXEC_PATH set to point to the correct location and does dm have
the rights to execute it -- that is, is the x bit set for the
GIT_EXEC_PATH directory, as per
http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/09/weird-git-gui-startup-problem/?).

What error message are you getting from gitk? Is it possible to debug
gitk to find out what command is being executed and what error
code/exception it is returning/throwing?

- Reece