Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] ci: allow skipping sudo on dockerized jobs

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On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 10:21:48AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Toon claes <toon@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> [PATCH v2 03/12] ci: allow skipping sudo on dockerized jobs
> >
> > I think this title is somewhat misleading. While it's true, I don't
> > think it's limited to dockerized jobs. Something more along the lines of
> > "allow running install-dependencies.sh as root" would make more sense to
> > me.
> 
> It is true that dockerized is not the essential part of this change;
> and it is that we skip sudo when we are already root.  So I agree
> with you that the original title is misleading.
> 
> "allow running as root" is somehow a bit unsatisfactory, though.  It
> sounds as if _we_ were not allowing it before---what was preventing
> us from doing so was a system without sudo.
> 
> Stepping back a bit, I wonder if install-dependencies.sh will stay
> to be the only one among ci/ scripts that need to run things as
> root.  If we moved the new logic in this patch to ci/lib.sh that is
> included by everybody, then the title of the patch can become a
> short and sweet
> 
>     ci: skip sudo when we are already root

Agreed, this title reads much better than what I had.

> > That's the only tiny remark I have on this patch series.
> 
> Thanks.

Thanks to both of you!

Patrick

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