On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> John Arthorne <arthorne.eclipse@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> For all the details see this bugzilla, particularly comment #59 where we >>>> finally narrowed this down: >>>> >>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=343150 >>> >>> What does "at the system level" in your "does *not* work at the >>> system level." exactly mean? >> >> "git config --system receive.denynonfastforwards true" is not honored. >> At all. (And I checked there was nothing overriding it). >> >> "--global" does work (is honored). >> >> Tested on 1.7.11 > > Thanks, and interesting. Uggh. My fault this one. I had a very tight umask on root, and running 'git config --system' created an /etc/gitconfig that was not readable by a normal user. Running strace clued me in... John: maybe it's as simple as that in your case too. Junio/Brandon/Jeff: sorry for the false corroboration of John's report! -- 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