On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Nanako Shiraishi<nanako3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> 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. > > I think somebody needs to repost an old patch from the archive. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/116729/focus=118385 That's almost identical to the patch I wanted to submit, except for the name 'SANITY', which doesn't make much sense I think. -- 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