Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nick Muerdter <st...@nickm.org> writes: >> As of git 1.8.1.1 and above (tested up to 1.8.1.3), if the home >> directory can't be accessed, it results in a fatal error. In git 1.8.1 >> and below this same setup just resulted in warnings. Was this an >> intentional change? > > I think this was done to not just help diagnosing misconfiguration, > but to prevent an unintended misconfiguration from causing problems > (e.g. the user thinks user.name is set up correctly, but forbids Git > from reading it from the configuration files, and ends up creating > commits under wrong names).
Yes, that's right. Sometimes ignoring settings has bad consequences, so git errors out to let the user intervene and decide whether the inaccessible settings are important. Thanks, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
