Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 04.06.2013 18:08, schrieb Jeff King: >> However, since changing user id and leaving $HOME is so common, there is >> a patch under consideration to loosen the check only for the case of >> EACCES on files in $HOME. That commit is 4698c8f (config: allow >> inaccessible configuration under $HOME, 2013-04-12); it's not yet in any >> released version of git, though. [...] > I've a PHP script in ~/public_html that runs git. Without the mentioned > patch, the script bails out due to this error. This time it's Apache > that gets me into trouble because at the time the PHP script and git > run, $HOME is still /root, but the user identity is not root anymore. > The patch is direly needed; without it, I need to use 'env > HOME=/home/j6t /usr/local/bin/git' in my script.
I could be remembering wrong, but I thought it was not so much "under consideration" as "accepted for 1.8.4". I haven't heard any compelling reasons not to apply it. Would it would make sense against earlier releases as well? 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
