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 -- 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