Re: running git as root

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

POSIXPERM doesn't appear to be quite right for this. For example, the
't1301-shared-repo.sh' test has the POSIXPERM prereq, but it runs fine
as root, because it merely validates that permissions are preserved.
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