On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 11:23:36AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: [...] > in the logs. However, adding the config to `~gitdaemon/.gitconfig` did not > have the desired effect. Neither did adding it to `~root/.gitconfig` and > only `/etc/gitconfig` works. > > So I checked `strace` and found that when invoked by `git-daemon`, Git > doesn't even consult `~/.gitconfig`, and I think this may be a bug. [...] Given the following passage from the docs, describing the "--user" option, | Like many programs that switch user id, the daemon does not reset | environment variables such as $HOME when it runs git programs, e.g. | upload-pack and receive-pack. When using this option, you may also want to | set and export HOME to point at the home directory of <user> before starting | the daemon, and make sure any Git configuration files in that directory are | readable by <user>. the behavior does indeed look like a bug.
