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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: running git as root
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:49:07 +0200
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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.