Use sudo if .git owner is owned by root/other user

[vguttmann]

I'm using git to manage my nixOS config, and the config (and associated git repo) are owned by root.

I configure my credentials on a per-repo basis, since there are a few different orgs I work for.

As such, when I execute any git command without sudo, git asks for a password, because it can't read the credential file in .git, so I have to interrupt.

It'd be helpful if pay-respects used sudo/su to execute the command as the user that owns the .git directory if the last command was a git command that was interrupted/failed (if there aren't other, more specific checks that apply first, I'd think of this more as a base case)

[iffse]

Any reason that you don't want to give read/write permission to yourself? Giving these permissions to yourself while owned by root is perfectly fine.

It's planned to implement a per-suggestion basis check for permissions. For entire git suggestion to use sudo due to permission issue will require another logical block to avoid verbosity, not complicated though.

[vguttmann]

No, giving myself permissions won't be an issue (and is what I did after thinking about it), I just thought that this might be a helpful thing to add in general for git stuff in cases where it can't be changed (like, as a base case if there aren't more specific fixes for a command)