2009/6/13 Marco Nelissen <marcone@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. There is such a prerequisite already (POSIXPERM), but what caused you to run the _tests_ as root? > What would be the preferred way? Use the prerequisite would sound right when not the strangeness of the idea. -- 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