Either I thought I needed to be or I tried it after "permission denied" failure as user. See below: Rob@Office:~$ git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git git, the filemanager with GNU Interactive Tools, is now called gitfm. If you are looking for git, Linus Torvald's content tracker, install the cogito and git-core packages and see README.Debian and git(7). This transition script will be removed in the debian stable release after etch. If you wish to complete the transition early, install git-core and use (as root): update-alternatives --config git Press RETURN to run gitfm /usr/bin/gitfm: warning: invalid extra options ignored GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i586-pc-linux-gnu), 10:15:20 Aug 21 2006 GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania /usr/bin/gitfm: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied. Rob@Office:~$ Either way it didn't work.
