Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think POSIXPERM is all you need for this case; SANITY doesn't buy > you anything, if I understand correctly. > >>> + cat basic_message >message && >>> + chmod -r message && >>> + test_must_fail git interpret-trailers --trailer "Reviewed-by: Alice" --in-place message && The purpose of "chmod -r message" is to force interpret-trailers to fail due to its input being unreadable; without SANITY, i.e. running this test as root, the command would happily read from message that is marked as unreadable by anybody, and test_must_fail will not pass. -- 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