On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Makes sense. I never run tests as root, thus wasn't thinking along those lines. -- 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