Installation on Mac via brew set my .gitconfig to be owned by root about scalar HOT 6 CLOSED

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

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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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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.

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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

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

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