Re: Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Nick Muerdter 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 >>>

Permission denied on home dir results in fatal error as of 1.8.1.1

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 ran into this in a situation where sudo is being used to execute a script as