Writing to `ballot.yml` fails with a permission denied error

[RaisinTen]

System info:

$ uname -a
Darwin Darshans-MacBook-Pro.local 21.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.2.0: Sun Nov 28 20:28:54 PST 2021; root:xnu-8019.61.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 3.0.1 14 Dec 2021 (Library: OpenSSL 3.0.1 14 Dec 2021)

Logs:

$ sh ./voteUsingGit.sh \
  RaisinTen \
  git@github.com:nodejs/TSC.git \
  vote-primordials-error-path \
  votes/primordials-error-path
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 304, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (304/304), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (295/295), done.
remote: Total 304 (delta 12), reused 162 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (304/304), 2.23 MiB | 2.40 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.
./voteUsingGit.sh: line 20: /var/folders/1s/mr6_sxdx0_59tj0xq5qzt_z00000gn/T/tmp.u5ibUVMK/votes/primordials-error-path/ballot.yml: Permission denied
./voteUsingGit.sh: line 23: /Users/raisinten/Desktop/temp/project/sh/encryptBallot.sh: No such file or directory
[vote-primordials-error-path 1466e68] vote from RaisinTen
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 votes/primordials-error-path/RaisinTen.json
Enumerating objects: 8, done.
Counting objects: 100% (8/8), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.03 KiB | 1.03 MiB/s, done.
Total 5 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), completed with 3 local objects.
To github.com:nodejs/TSC.git
   a619c98..1466e68  HEAD -> vote-primordials-error-path

This ends up committing and pushing an empty file.

Workaround:

I believe running with sudo should be a temporary fix for now.

[RaisinTen]

Running with sudo doesn't seem to allow me to recast the vote. 🤔

$ sudo sh ./voteUsingGit.sh \
  RaisinTen \
  git@github.com:nodejs/TSC.git \
  vote-primordials-error-path \
  votes/primordials-error-path
Password:
Cloning into '.'...
The authenticity of host 'github.com (13.234.210.38)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:+DiY3wvvV6TuJJhbpZisF/zLDA0zPMSvHdkr4UvCOqU.
This key is not known by any other names
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.
remote: Enumerating objects: 305, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (305/305), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (295/295), done.
remote: Total 305 (delta 12), reused 163 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (305/305), 2.23 MiB | 2.41 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (12/12), done.
./voteUsingGit.sh: line 20: /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/tmp.u1UoIdLI/votes/primordials-error-path/ballot.yml: Permission denied
./voteUsingGit.sh: line 23: /Users/raisinten/Desktop/temp/project/sh/encryptBallot.sh: No such file or directory
On branch vote-primordials-error-path
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/vote-primordials-error-path'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
Everything up-to-date

[stduhpf]

Thanks for the report

Looks like your $EDITOR environement variable isn't defined.
There's also another issue: the script expects to find an exectuable named encryptBallot.sh. The example should have downloaded it, we overlooked that part. (Antoine updated the instructions to fix this)

The script should warn you about it, that should be taken care of with 414518e.

[aduh95]

Looks like your $EDITOR environement variable isn't defined.

To fix that, you can either define $EDITOR in your .bashrc (or .zshrc or whichever shell you are using), or define it inline like this:

curl -LOJ https://github.com/stduhpf/caritat/raw/HEAD/sh/voteUsingGit.sh
curl -LOJ https://github.com/stduhpf/caritat/raw/HEAD/sh/encryptBallot.sh
chmod +x encryptBallot.sh
EDITOR=nano sh ./voteUsingGit.sh \
  RaisinTen \
  git@github.com:nodejs/TSC.git \
  vote-primordials-error-path \
  votes/primordials-error-path
rm encryptBallot.sh
rm voteUsingGit.sh