Re: git status resets permissions on index file -- Ubuntu 12.04 64b

["Kyle J. McKay" <mackyle@gmail.com>]

On Aug 8, 2013, at 15:18, Andrew Ruder wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:35:35PM +0200, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On 08/08/2013 10:27 PM, Justin Collum wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> -rwxrwxrwx   1 dev dev  17K Aug  8 13:12 index
>>> [...]
>>> -rw-rw-r--   1 dev dev  17K Aug  8 13:16 index   # <---------------
>>
>> The permissions are set to reading for all and writing for you(r  
>> user)
>> and your group. This should be no problem with standard git commands.
>> Before you had the index file executable, why would you need that?
>
> I'm about 90% sure the issue he's having is that the write bit for
> other/world goes away and he is neither the user dev or the group dev
> and the reason for all the executable bits is that he is regularly
> running
>
>    chmod -R 777 .
>
> Justin, if this is true, I will tell you that git respects your umask
> but I just can't bring myself to really suggest someone type umask 000
> ever. :(


Justin,

If you really want a repository that's writable by everyone, why not  
just do "git config core.sharedRepository 0666" ?

If you just want them to be group-writable you may be happier with  
"git config core.sharedRepository true" or possibly "git config  
core.sharedRepository all".  The setting is described fully in "git  
help config".