Nick Muerdter <stuff@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home > directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1 > and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an > intentional change? I think this was done to not just help diagnosing misconfiguration, but to prevent an unintended misconfiguration from causing problems (e.g. the user thinks user.name is set up correctly, but forbids Git from reading it from the configuration files, and ends up creating commits under wrong names). Somebody please correct me if this weren't the case... -- 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