Re: sharedRepository derived from file permissions

[Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> writes:
> 
> >> > It looks like it might be easier (and less confusing to users) to derive 
> >> > this attribute from the top-level .git directory?
> >> 
> >> Hrm, clever ;-)
> >> 
> >> > Is there a reason why Git doesn't just follow (and echo) the top-level 
> >> > permissions?
> >> 
> >> Other than "we did not trust that all the end users are capable of
> >> doing the right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git", with a
> >> little bit of "we didn't think of that when we wrote the system", I
> >> do not recall any.
> >
> > Thanks. If I understand, you mean it might be worth a try to implement 
> > this.
> 
> Not really.
> 
> I still do not think that all the end users are capable of doing the
> right 'chmod 2775 .git && chgrp project .git' themselves.

But with the current method, users still have to do this _and_ set 
sharedRepository=.

It would make things hard or impossible if we assume that a user wanting 
to share a repository does not understand file modes or groups.

-- 
Mark