On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Michael J Gruber<git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This is not possible on BeOS, where there is only one user, and it is the super user. -- 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