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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rewriting revs in place in push target repository
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:55:16 -0700
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To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Rewrite refs in place in receive-pack & friends
>
> When updating a ref, it would write a new file with the new ref and
> then rename it, overwriting the original file. The problem is that
> this destroys permissions and ownership of the original file, which is
> troublesome especially in multiuser environment, like the one I live in.

Hmph.  If a repo is _really_ used multiuser then you should not
have to care about ownership.  If you can write into a
repository for a project (implying that you are a member of that
project group), and if your umask is set up correctly (meaning
it is 002 or looser), and with g+s bit on the directory at the
repository root level when it was created, shouldn't your newly
created ref file be also writable by others in that project?