Subject: Re: regression: "96b9e0e3 config: treat user and xdg config permission problems as errors" busted git-daemon

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:11:03 -0700

Jeff King wrote:

> Here it is with a commit message.
>
> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] daemon: set HOME when we switch to --user

Thanks for taking care of it.  For what it's worth,

Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>

I'm not sure whether to keep 96b9e0e (config: treat user and xdg
config permission problem as errors) in the long run, BTW.  There have
been multiple reports about dropping privileges and not being able to
access the old HOME, and I'm not convinced any more that the
predictability is worth the breakage for such people.  Though checking
if $HOME is inaccessible and treating that case specially would be
even worse...

Insights welcome.

Jonathan