From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Correctly handle transient files in shared repositories Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:22:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20160111202243.GA14289@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Yaroslav Halchenko , SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 11 21:26:58 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIj3K-0000OV-8A for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:26:58 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965198AbcAKUWx (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:22:53 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:51557 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965167AbcAKUWq (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:22:46 -0500 Received: (qmail 11996 invoked by uid 102); 11 Jan 2016 20:22:46 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:22:46 -0500 Received: (qmail 4993 invoked by uid 107); 11 Jan 2016 20:23:03 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:23:03 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:22:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:35:42PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Transient files, e.g. commit messages, are writable only by the owner, > even in shared repositories, to avoid interference between competing > users working on the same files. > > These files are typically not deleted after use. As a consequence, we > have to delete such files before writing when they are owned by someone > else than the current user. > > The only change relative to v2 is that the second commit message > clarifies why apply, fsck and fast-import are left unchanged. This looks fine to me. Even if if there are sites that could also use conversion, this is a strict improvement, and we can revisit the other ones in the future. Thanks. -Peff