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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:20:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vip3shfpd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130411200330.GA15667@odin.tremily.us> (W. Trevor King's message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:03:30 -0400")

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> As one of the less experienced folks tripped up by this issue, I think
> that setting HOME explicitly before invoking the daemon is simple
> enough (which is why I just fixed my invocation and didn't post to the
> list).

Sounds like we need a documentation update somewhere.

> The difficulty was figuring out why the daemon was dying in
> the first place (which involved bisection for me as well).  Maybe
> there could be an additional note about HOME to flesh out:
>
>   fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied
>
> when there's an EACCES error for the per-user config?

Doesn't access_or_die() say

    die_errno(_("unable to access '%s'"), path);

already?  I am puzzled...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-11 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-10  5:33 regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon Mike Galbraith
2013-04-10 13:56 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11  3:39   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11  5:42     ` Jeff King
2013-04-11  7:59       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11 15:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 17:24         ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 18:11           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-11 18:14             ` Jeff King
2013-04-11 18:25               ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-11 19:54               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-11 20:03                 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-11 22:20                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-04-11 22:23                     ` Jeff King
2013-04-12  0:57                       ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12  4:11                         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12  4:35                           ` Jeff King
2013-04-12  4:46                             ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12  5:05                               ` Jeff King
2013-04-12  5:46                                 ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-12 11:26                                 ` W. Trevor King
2013-04-12 14:48                                   ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 16:08                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 16:16                                       ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 17:05                                         ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 18:23                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:01                                             ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 19:51                                               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:58                                                 ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 20:45                                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 19:14                                           ` [PATCH] config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-12 19:37                                             ` Jeff King
2013-04-12 20:34                                               ` [PATCH] fixup! " Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-12 21:03                                                 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2013-04-13  4:28                                                   ` Mike Galbraith
2013-05-25 11:35                                                   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2013-04-12 17:31                                         ` regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon Junio C Hamano
2013-04-12 16:21                                       ` Mike Galbraith
2013-04-11 20:08                 ` Jeff King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-12 14:45 Evan Priestley

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