git-for-windows/git-sdk-64

Bundle gsudo from https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo for testing permissions issues

doctorpangloss opened this issue · 3 comments

doctorpangloss commented

There are a lot of permissions related issues on Windows that may be worth authoring tests for. An easy way to verify the behavior is correct automatically via integration testing is using gsudo for an interactive UAC prompt (or no prompt on a properly configured Windows machine).

Adding gsudo as usr/bin/sudo.exe should make it easier to integration test.

dscho commented

The most prevalent reason for "Permission denied" errors is a sharing violation (trying to delete files that are still in use).

Since you gave no concrete example (but linked to a Google search, whose results are personalized, read: you see different hits than I do), I cannot give you anything more concrete.

If you want gsudo in Git for Windows' SDK, your best bet is to open a PR at https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages or https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages (depending whether it is a pure Win32 program or whether it requires the MSYS2/Cygwin runtime), to add it as a Pacman package.

rimrul commented

If you want gsudo in Git for Windows' SDK, your best bet is to open a PR at https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages or https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages (depending whether it is a pure Win32 program or whether it requires the MSYS2/Cygwin runtime), to add it as a Pacman package.

.NET framework 4.6, so likely no MSYS2 dependency.

dscho commented

.NET framework 4.6, so likely no MSYS2 dependency.

Thank you for digging deeper.