Installation on Mac via brew set my .gitconfig to be owned by root

[nipunn1313]

Potentially some git config command was run as root during installation?
Can dig into it more if it's hard to repro, but wanted to throw the issue up here first.

[derrickstolee]

What specifically do you mean, your .gitignore? Perhaps you instead mean your ~/.gitconfig file? That would certainly be unfortunate, so we should look into that.

[nipunn1313]

Yes! It was .gitconfig! Sorry mistyped when typing up the report!

[nipunn1313]

One specific thing about my setup - is that my ~/.gitconfig is a symlink to another location (target) - specifically within my Dropbox folder.

During installation, the target location became owned by root.

I ended up noticing, because Dropbox yelled about not having ownership to .gitconfig

[mjcheetham]

This is probably GCM Core that's writing to your ~/.gitconfig, and not necessarily Scalar.

The scalar and scalar-azrepos Casks require installation as root because root is required to install the internal .pkg file.
These Casks depend on GCM Core (git-credential-manager-core), which is therefore also installed as root. GCM Core as a postinstall action calls git config --global ... ... which, being run as root, will change the ownership of the ~/.gitconfig file.

We need a way to have these post install actions not run as root OR change the GCM Core Cask to run gcm configure --system which will update the git config --system config file (/etc/gitconfig).

cc: @derrickstolee

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[derrickstolee]

Closing in favor of git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager#186.