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

["Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
>> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
>> not found'
>
> Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> and what are the permissions on the directory? You can run (on the
> command line from the Terminal program):
>
>   ls -lh directory
>
> to find this out (where directory is the directory you are interested
> in) and run:
>
>   sudo chown user -R directory
>
> to change ownership of that directory (and all of its content) to the
> specified user (i.e. the one you are currently logged in as). This
> will make it so that you own that directory and can make changes to
> it. This should allow you to run gitk without using sudo.

Even I suspected that it may be related to some permission and checked
them...But I couldn't find the actual cause.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),1000(dm)

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 branches
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm  256 2009-01-18 23:28 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   58 2009-01-18 23:24 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   23 2009-01-18 23:28 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 3.8K 2009-01-18 23:28 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:28 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   94 2009-01-18 23:28 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:28 refs

'dm' is a user I created while installing Ubuntu.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l `which gitk`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237778 2008-04-08 22:31 /usr/bin/gitk
dm-laptop:~/repos/atria>


-- DM