Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > How about adding an extra check, where we check the write permissions
   > as well for the user and group?  That is, if the user and the group
   > the user is member of, cannot write to the .git directory then we stop
   > traversing...

   I don't think this will fly: currently VC works even when you're looking
   at a project to which you don't have write access, so neither the files
   nor the .git might be writable.

AFAIK, atleast for git, you must have write access, if you do not you
cannot ceate a lock file.