On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:32:56AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So I think we would need to simulate the errno setting, like the > > patch below. That should generate the hint only when it would > > actually be useful. > > it wasnt hard to figure out what's going on. So this was more of a > FYI, not really a bug report. Maybe if someone tries to pull into a > read-only repo the same could happen? My particular breakage (of a > single ref being root-owned - the rest was mingo owned) is atypical > enough to be ignored. Actually, it is a little bit tough to get your breakage. A pure read-only repo would error out much earlier (permission denied on FETCH_HEAD or writing to object db). But if yours was just "accidentally fetched once as root", then that doesn't seem too uncommon. > If there's no easy/clean solution then please ignore my report. I think the patch I posted isn't too bad. We'll see what others say. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html