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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>,
	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: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:45:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vli8ncwao.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130412195854.GA7795@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:58:54 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> OK. I'll hold off for now while we stew on it. Jonathan's patch looks OK
> to me, but it has the same issue. But I think every path has to be one
> of:
>
>   1. We annoy sysadmins who need to take an extra step to handle the
>      HOME situation with --user (the current behavior, or any other
>      proposal that they have to opt into).
>
>   2. We annoy sysadmins who want to set HOME with --user, either by
>      making what they want to do impossible, or making them set an extra
>      variable or option to accomplish what used to work (my patch to set
>      HOME with --user).
>
>   3. We loosen the check, so some cases which might be noteworthy are
>      not caught (my patch, Jonathan's patch, etc).
>
> I think any solution will have to fall into one of those slots. So we
> need to pick the least evil one, and then hammer out its least evil
> form.

That summarizes our options nicely, I think.  Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-12 20:45 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
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 [this message]
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
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2013-04-12 14:45 Evan Priestley

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