3 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/base.bbclass b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
index 070341d1aa..78cc8279dd 100644
--- a/meta/classes/base.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/base.bbclass
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ addtask install after do_compile
 do_install[dirs] = "${B}"
 # Remove and re-create ${D} so that is it guaranteed to be empty
 do_install[cleandirs] = "${D}"
+PATH:prepend:task-install = "${COREBASE}/scripts/git-intercept:"
 
 base_do_install() {
         :
diff --git a/meta/classes/devshell.bbclass b/meta/classes/devshell.bbclass
index 76dd0b42ee..b6212ebd89 100644
--- a/meta/classes/devshell.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/devshell.bbclass
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ inherit terminal
 
 DEVSHELL = "${SHELL}"
 
+PATH:prepend:task-devshell = "${COREBASE}/scripts/git-intercept:"
+
 python do_devshell () {
     if d.getVarFlag("do_devshell", "manualfakeroot"):
        d.prependVar("DEVSHELL", "pseudo ")
diff --git a/scripts/git-intercept/git b/scripts/git-intercept/git
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..8adf5c9ecb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/git-intercept/git
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Wrapper around 'git' that doesn't think we are root
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+
+os.environ['PSEUDO_UNLOAD'] = '1'
+
+# calculate path to the real 'git'
+path = os.environ['PATH']
+path = path.replace(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]), '')
+real_git = shutil.which('git', path=path)
+
+if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+    os.execl(real_git, 'git')
+
+os.execv(real_git, sys.argv)