Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

So you need write access even just to do things like diff or even
just diff-index?  That's too bad.  So maybe for Git we could use that
refinement of my heuristic, but it wouldn't help for other backends.


        Stefan