From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Cc: Federico Lucifredi <federico@canonical.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git Bug report
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:49:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vlisz8jur.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111005072235.GA12600@kolya> (Fredrik Gustafsson's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2011 09:22:35 +0200")
Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 05:24:03PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote:
>> Found a minor bug in git today - the error message reported is not
>> correct when trying to access a repo that is not accessible
>> permission-wise:
>>
>> > federico@skyplex:/etc$ git log
>> > fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
>>
>> with correct access permissions, everything works as expected.
>
> So if:
> .git/ is a directory with not enought permissions.
> ../.git/ is a directory with enought permissions.
>
> git would today use ../.git. You suggest that git instead would die
> because a .git/ exists? (I'm not saying this is wrong or right).
For that matter, if you have .git/ that is a directory but is not a
repository, and ../.git/ that is, the same situation would arise. I do not
think we should die because .git/ is not a git repository. I do not know
if we should even warn about it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-05 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 21:24 Git Bug report Federico Lucifredi
2011-10-05 6:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2011-10-05 8:17 ` [PATCH] Report errors related to .git access during repository discovery Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-10-05 18:32 ` Git Bug report Federico Lucifredi
2011-10-05 7:22 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2011-10-05 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-10-05 21:56 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-10-06 0:33 ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-10-06 0:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-06 1:09 ` SZEDER Gábor
[not found] ` <CABURp0qCsKG2oOxLw4BfU8UM=9V+pigd69ZK=TZVwetBPqjuiA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-06 16:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-06 16:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-10-06 16:54 ` Phil Hord
2011-10-06 22:57 ` Aaron Schrab
2011-10-06 16:48 ` Phil Hord
2022-04-14 7:22 Git Bug Report Randall Alfaro
2022-10-10 23:09 Git bug report Camden Narzt
2023-08-04 16:46 git " Paul Watson
2023-08-04 17:28 ` rsbecker
2023-08-08 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
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