On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Daniel
Convissor<danielc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I just installed git in my Cygwin installation for the first time. The
> git version is 1.6.1.2, which is the latest version they have. When I
> enter one of the following commands:
> git --help
> git config --global user.name "Daniel Convissor"
>
> I get this error:
> fatal: Cannot change to /home/danielc/..: Permission denied
>
> Though "git --version" executes fine.
>
> I've been using Cygwin for many years and no other program has ever
> produced this issue for me. For example, svn --help, ls --help, etc work
> just fine.
>
> Why is git venturing into to the home directory's parent directory? Is
> this a bug? If not, is this really necessary?
I guess it tried to find .git directory upward. I think you can set
GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to make it stop at /home/danielc. Excerpt from
git.txt
-'GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES'::
This should be a colon-separated list of absolute paths.
If set, it is a list of directories that git should not chdir
up into while looking for a repository directory.
It will not exclude the current working directory or
a GIT_DIR set on the command line or in the environment.
(Useful for excluding slow-loading network directories.)
-
Duy
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