Sarajärvi Tony <Tony.Sarajarvi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Using Ubuntu 13.04 with Git 1.8.1.2 I stumbled upon a problem using Puppet.
>
> In Puppet we launch Git with the command: '/usr/bin/git config --file
> /home/qt/.gitconfig --get "user.name" "Qt Continuous Integration
> System"'
> However, puppet logs: "fatal: unable to access '/root/.config/git/config': Permission denied".
>
> Puppet is run as root, so HOME points to /root, but still -file should override the environment variable.
>
> If the same command is run directly from terminal as root, it works as well.
To elaborate (I briefly talked to Sarajärvi on IRC): this isn't about
the fatal error; we downgraded this to a nonfatal error in 4698c8f
(config: allow inaccessible configuration under $HOME, 2013-04-12).
Rather, it's very strange that 'git config --file foo' tries to look at
any config file other than 'foo'. In a git repo:
$ strace git config --file fooconfig test.var 2>&1 | grep 'open.*config'
open("/home/thomas/.gitconfig", O_RDONLY) = 3
open(".git/config", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/home/thomas/.gitconfig", O_RDONLY) = 3
open(".git/config", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("fooconfig", O_RDONLY) = 3
I haven't looked into the code yet. Probably it's simply following the
usual code paths to discover a repo and read its config. However, with
the --file option, it shouldn't.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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