From: William Pursell <bill.pursell@gmail.com>
To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shared permissions on COMMIT_EDITMSG
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:03:45 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B61C371.4050903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100128111425.GA29577@Knoppix>
Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:19:22PM -1000, William Pursell wrote:
>> With git-init --shared=0660 and a umask of 022,
>> the first commit to the repository creates
>> the file COMMIT_EDITMSG with mode 0644
>> instead of 0660. I believe this is incorrect
>> behavior. Simple fix:
>
> COMMIT_EDITMSG is related to committing, committing needs
> working copy, and shared working copies don't work all too
> well (and Git can't do anything about that because all kinds
> of stuff edits the files there, not just Git).
>
> Shared repository settings are meant to override umasks
> for files in actual repository itself.
For simple work flows (eg recording linear history
of config files), sharing a working directory
works okay except for COMMIT_EDITMSG. Since
COMMIT_EDITMSG is in the git repository and only
written by git, it makes sense for core.sharedrepository
to be honored.
--
William Pursell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-28 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 9:19 shared permissions on COMMIT_EDITMSG William Pursell
2010-01-28 11:14 ` Ilari Liusvaara
2010-01-28 17:03 ` William Pursell [this message]
2010-01-28 17:57 ` demerphq
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