From a6c6f0d2cfe2ffaa3995c52af97cdbdf9757ed43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "R. Steve McKown" <rsmckown@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:48:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] gitcreate: automatically re-run as repo owner

If gitcreate as ran as root, it can restart itself using sudo so that it
is ran as the correct repo owner user.  This is a convenience change.
---
 scripts/gitcreate | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gitcreate b/scripts/gitcreate
index e1363c7..daa5eb4 100755
--- a/scripts/gitcreate
+++ b/scripts/gitcreate
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ gitaclspath="$git_root/$gitacls"
 githooks=.githooks
 githookspath="$git_root/$githooks"
 
+# If running as root, rerun via sudo as user $owner to ensure proper permissions
+if [ "$(whoami)" == "root" ]; then
+    sudo -u $owner $0 $*
+    exit $?
+fi
+
 if [ "$(whoami)" != "$owner" ]; then
     echo "$0: must run as user $owner" >&2
     exit 1
-- 
2.39.2