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starting gitea with another user than defined in gitea.conf 
 results in: 
 
... routers/init.go:74:mustInitCtx() [F] code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/git.InitFull(ctx) failed: failed to set git global config diff.algorithm, err: exit status 255 - warning: unable to access '/home/rudolf/.config/git/gitconfig': Permission denied
error: could not lock config file…

starting gitea with another user than defined in gitea.conf

results in:

... routers/init.go:74:mustInitCtx() [F] code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/git.InitFull(ctx) failed: failed to set git global config diff.algorithm, err: exit status 255 - warning: unable to access '/home/rudolf/.config/git/gitconfig': Permission denied error: could not lock config file /home/rudolf/.config/git/gitconfig: Permission denied - warning: unable to access '/home/rudolf/.config/git/gitconfig': Permission denied error: could not lock config file /home/rudolf/.config/git/gitconfig: Permission denied

the fix is to run before running gitea.

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