From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:05:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200808181433.m7IEX8U3028640@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808181639.m7IGd1kb005968@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200808182031.m7IKVbR7001754@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220018850 28463 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2008 14:07:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, eliz@gnu.org, claus.klingberg@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 29 16:08:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZ4dw-0000IG-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:08:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50758 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ4cx-0001GL-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:07:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ4cu-0001GC-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ4cs-0001G0-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58428 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZ4cs-0001Fx-QI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:49748) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZ4cs-0000SD-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KZ4bO-0006xn-9S; Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:05:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:18 -0400) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103132 Archived-At: >> Well, in that case, perhaps you need to add an option to disable this >> heuristic, since if someone is unfortunate enough to be in the alleged >> 0.0001%, she will need a fire escape. > Might be. I'd still like to know how the OP ended up in this situation, > I ended up not using vc-mode, but using the command line. A > major pain. That explains how you worked around VC's limitation, but I'd be interested to hear about how you ended up in a state where you bumped into VC's limitation. I.e. how come your /foo/bar/ is owned by a different user than /foo/ even though they're both part of the same Git tree? In this case, the directory was in /, / is always owned by root, and /.git was owned by ams. I suspect this only crops up in system wide git trees, like /etc is owned by root, and then you have another user create /etc/.git to manage /etc.