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Updating notebooks using Git pull changes owner to root

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, git, shell

Research direction

Start by inspecting the repository's Dockerfiles and the notebook update workflow, then reproduce a git pull inside the Docker environment. Trace why updated files become owned by root:root and determine the expected ownership that allows notebooks to be saved. Done means updates retain writable ownership for the notebook user.

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Description

If you use git pull to update the notebooks the changed files get the owner and group root:root. This makes the notebook unable to be saved. I tried correcting this locally(docker) by using the $chown --preserve[=ATTR_LIST] but that did not seem to work for some reason.

Dominant language
Shell
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28
Forks
10
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