Marco Nelissen venit, vidit, dixit 13.06.2009 17:25: > When running as root, git fails a number of test cases that expect it > to fail on read-only repositories (for example 't0004-unwritable.sh'). > I was thinking of either changing the code so that it checks > permissions itself when opening files as root, or add a prerequisite > to those test cases so that they are skipped when running as root. > What would be the preferred way? The preferred ways is to build git as non-root user. This is true even more so for running the test suite. Michael -- 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