Re: [PATCH 1/1] run-command.c: ignore bad permissions on dirs in PATH

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Dale Rowley <ddrowley@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> All of my git aliases stopped working one day. For example, when I ran 'git ci'
> (where 'ci' is an alias for 'commit') it printed out this error:
>
> fatal: cannot exec 'git-ci': Permission denied
>
> This error was confusing (I didn't have a 'git-ci' executable anywhere, so why
> was it complaining about permissions?) and it took me a while to figure out that
> this was happening because I happened to have a random directory in my PATH that
> had permissions set incorrectly. Git should probably ignore this, and here is
> one way to fix it, although I'm not sure if it's the best way.

As long as the issue is "a directory P on PATH is unreadable, and we tried
to see if P/git-ci is executable and reported failure by exiting", I think
your patch is a reasonable solution.

Thanks
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