On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster <brian.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@xxxxxxxxx>: >> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use >> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository >> >> not found' >> > >> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory) >> > and what are the permissions on the directory? [ ... ] >> >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a >> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm) [ ... ] >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/ >>[... all looks Ok ...] > > repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner > _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory? > I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by > denying myself search (née execute) permission on that > directory, for entirely obvious reasons. It's the same issue....Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...? dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),1000(dm) dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .git drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .git dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -la .git total 68 drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 . drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 branches -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 20 2009-01-19 22:28 COMMIT_EDITMSG -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 256 2009-01-18 23:28 config -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 58 2009-01-18 23:24 description -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 89 2009-01-19 20:15 FETCH_HEAD -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 23 2009-01-19 21:49 HEAD drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 5280 2009-01-19 22:28 index drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 info drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 logs drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 objects -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 41 2009-01-19 20:15 ORIG_HEAD -rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 153 2009-01-19 22:34 packed-refs drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 refs dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> umask 22 -- DM -- 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