From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: undocumented core.sharedRepository=2 set by git init --shared=world
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:44:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559B756A.2040202@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150706192547.GA15396@kitenet.net>
On 2015-07-06 21.25, Joey Hess wrote:
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>git init --shared=world testrepo
> Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/testrepo/.git/
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>grep shared testrepo/.git/config
> sharedrepository = 2
>
> This magic value of 2 seems to be undocumented, as is the magic value of 1
> that's equvilant to "group".
>
> I think it would be better to have git init put in "world" or "group" and not
> these magic values.
Thanks for the report.
Changing the behavior of Git may cause problems with
- older versions of Git
- Other implementations of Git, like JGit, libgit2, ...
Did you check what these implementations do ?
Anyway, I suppose they ought to be documented too.
>
Yes.
Do you want to send a patch ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-07 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 19:25 undocumented core.sharedRepository=2 set by git init --shared=world Joey Hess
2015-07-07 6:44 ` Torsten Bögershausen [this message]
2015-07-07 8:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-07-07 9:10 ` John Keeping
2015-07-07 11:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-07-07 11:52 ` John Keeping
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