On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Matthieu Moy
<matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Earlier when I was testing the master branch on my pc, I used "make"
>> in \t directory, which lead to failure of test #2, #3 in
>> t5539-fetch-http-shallow.sh .
>> Afterwards I switched to sudo mode and ran the make command again.
>
> Never ever do that. Your git source tree should be within your $HOME
> directory, and you should never run any command as root that creates
> files within your $HOME dir. If you do that, you'll end up having files
> belonging to root within other directories, you won't have write
> permission on these files. Then, anything can go wrong because any
> attempt to write to these files will fail.
>
> The simplest way to get back on track for you is probably to start over
> with a fresh clone, or (warning: destructive operations): use git clean
> to remove untracked files.
>

I think a 'sudo git clean' outta be enough. But the main point to take away is
not using 'make' with 'sudo' like you mentioned.

-- 
Regards,
Karthik Nayak
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