Hi Junio, On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > ... I am not sure about this part. Do we have any other codepath to > > show "to debug, run the program with this" suggestion? Adding it in > > the documentation is probably good, but this is an extra message > > that is much larger than the "owned by X but you are Y" message that > > would be shown. With or without the environment set, the output > > will become noisier with this patch. I wonder if we are better off > > giving the information that is given in the warning (in compat/ part > > of the patch) _unconditionally_ in the message, which would make it > > less noisy overall. > > I am wondering if passing a struct to allow is_path_owned_by*() > helper(s) to report the detail of the failures they discover a > cleaner way to do this. To illustrate what I meant, along the > lines of the following patch, with any additional code to actually > stuff messages in the strbuf report, in the is_path_owned_by*() > implementation. I like it! Let me play with this, after this coming week (during which I plan to be mostly offline). Thanks, Dscho > > I am perfectly OK if we make it a debug-only option by hiding this > behind an environment variable, but if we were to do so, I do not > want to see us advertize the environment variable in the die() > message (a debug-only option can be documented, but not worth > surfacing in and contaminating the usual UI output). > > Comments? > > compat/mingw.c | 2 +- > git-compat-util.h | 3 ++- > setup.c | 12 +++++++++--- > 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git c/compat/mingw.c w/compat/mingw.c > index 2607de93af..f12b7df16d 100644 > --- c/compat/mingw.c > +++ w/compat/mingw.c > @@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ static PSID get_current_user_sid(void) > return result; > } > > -int is_path_owned_by_current_sid(const char *path) > +int is_path_owned_by_current_sid(const char *path, struct strbuf *report) > { > WCHAR wpath[MAX_PATH]; > PSID sid = NULL; > diff --git c/git-compat-util.h w/git-compat-util.h > index 58d7708296..de34b0ea7e 100644 > --- c/git-compat-util.h > +++ w/git-compat-util.h > @@ -487,7 +487,8 @@ static inline void extract_id_from_env(const char *env, uid_t *id) > } > } > > -static inline int is_path_owned_by_current_uid(const char *path) > +struct strbuf; > +static inline int is_path_owned_by_current_uid(const char *path, struct strbuf *report) > { > struct stat st; > uid_t euid; > diff --git c/setup.c w/setup.c > index 09b6549ba9..ed823585f7 100644 > --- c/setup.c > +++ w/setup.c > @@ -1143,12 +1143,18 @@ static int ensure_valid_ownership(const char *gitfile, > struct safe_directory_data data = { > .path = worktree ? worktree : gitdir > }; > + struct strbuf report = STRBUF_INIT; > > if (!git_env_bool("GIT_TEST_ASSUME_DIFFERENT_OWNER", 0) && > - (!gitfile || is_path_owned_by_current_user(gitfile)) && > - (!worktree || is_path_owned_by_current_user(worktree)) && > - (!gitdir || is_path_owned_by_current_user(gitdir))) > + (!gitfile || is_path_owned_by_current_user(gitfile, &report)) && > + (!worktree || is_path_owned_by_current_user(worktree, &report)) && > + (!gitdir || is_path_owned_by_current_user(gitdir, &report))) { > + if (report.len) { > + fputs(report.buf, stderr); > + strbuf_release(&report); > + } > return 1; > + } > > /* > * data.path is the "path" that identifies the repository and it is >