Hi, On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dilip M wrote: > 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...? I'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat() calls involving <something>/.git. Ciao, Dscho
