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

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

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster
<brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
>> >> ..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?  [ ... ]
>>
>> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
>> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)  [ ... ]
>> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
>>[... all looks Ok ...]
>
>  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....Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?

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 -ld .git
drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .git

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -la .git
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 branches
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   20 2009-01-19 22:28 COMMIT_EDITMSG
-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   89 2009-01-19 20:15 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   23 2009-01-19 21:49 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 5280 2009-01-19 22:28 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   41 2009-01-19 20:15 ORIG_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm  153 2009-01-19 22:34 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 refs

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> umask
22


-- DM