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. -- 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