-
-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 636
Open
Labels
Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When gitui
starts and there is no config and the home directory is write protected, it fails with an unspecific message: Error: Permission denied (os error 13)
while trying to create folders and/or the config itself.
(Original Discussion for more context: #2682)
To Reproduce
(Simplest on Linux)
- Spawn a new shell with a different home directory (just change
HOME
env variable)
which is not writable (for example owned by root) - run
gitui
- Result:
Error: Permission denied (os error 13)
Describe the solution you'd like
A clear and concise description of what gitui
failed to do. So in this case probably something like:
Failed to write config to /some/path/.config
Error: Permission denied (os error 13)
Describe alternatives you've considered
Not implementing it and let the user figure it out :-D
I personally used strace
to find the issue because I first thought it had something to do with my terminal setup (see #2682)
extrawurst