On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:20:46PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "W. Trevor King" <wking@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > As one of the less experienced folks tripped up by this issue, I think
> > that setting HOME explicitly before invoking the daemon is simple
> > enough (which is why I just fixed my invocation and didn't post to the
> > list).
>
> Sounds like we need a documentation update somewhere.
Yeah, I'd be happy to drop my patch if somebody wants to write a
documentation update instead.
> > The difficulty was figuring out why the daemon was dying in
> > the first place (which involved bisection for me as well). Maybe
> > there could be an additional note about HOME to flesh out:
> >
> > fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied
> >
> > when there's an EACCES error for the per-user config?
>
> Doesn't access_or_die() say
>
> die_errno(_("unable to access '%s'"), path);
>
> already? I am puzzled...
I think the point is that it could add
...and I was looking in /root, because that is where your HOME points.
Shouldn't you be able to read your own HOME directory?
which should make it painfully obvious to the user what is going on.
-Peff
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