Git Alias Problem

Question

I was trying to set up some git aliases by adding these lines to my ~/.gitconfig file:

[alias]
  st = status
  ci = commit
  br = branch
         


        

Answer 1

unutbu correctly pointed out to the git-osx-installer issue 53, which states:

Basically, I had /root/bin in my path and didn't have permissions for that directory.

Interestingly, this was not a problem with git 1.6.3, but it was with 1.7.0 and 1.7.1.

A strace -f -eexecve git st 2>&1 | grep EACC can help see what directory is the problem:

[pid 6469] execve("/usr/games/bin/git-st", ["git-st"], [/* 72 vars */]) = -1 EACCES

(in this instance, the /usr/games/bin/)

Another way to find the path with the problem is:

echo $PATH |tr ':' '\n' |xargs ls -ld

One of my invalid items is actually an NFS mounted directory that I don't have permission to access because I have not authenticated via Kerberos to the corporate NFS server.
Removing that one item from the PATH fixes the issue, and 'git stat' (my alias for status) now works.

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PeterT mentions in the comment that you might not have strace available (like in Solaris or OsX, as detailed in "Equivalent of strace -feopen < command > on mac os X"), in which case dtruss is a good equivalent.

dtruss -f -t execve git st 2>&1 | grep EACC