From: Ed Schofield <edschofield@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:59:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Git newbie question: permissions
Message-ID: <1b5a37350810091559y151e244t43710d4e4c3dabcf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2008-10-09-23-41-14+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:
>>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Schofield <edschofield@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Ed> I have now run "git --bare init --shared=group" to reinitialize
> Ed> the repository. This seems to have changed the directories to be
> Ed> g+sx. (Is this all it did?). There are still some objects
> Ed> directories with 755 permissions rather than 770, which I presume
> Ed> I want, and the group ownership of these is wrong. Shall I change
> Ed> these by hand? The sha1 files all have 444 permissions; is this
> Ed> right?
>
> Ed> The last question I have is how to ensure that git creates object
> Ed> files etc. with the right permissions when users push in future.
>
> As Marc said, you should first make sure that "config" contains
> "sharedrepository = 1" in the "[core]" section.
>
> Then you can do the following:
>
>  - remove all permissions for "others":  chmod -R o-rwx .
>  - mirror "user" permissions to "group": chmod -R g=u .
>  - add +s flag to directories:           find . -type d | xargs chmod g+s
>
> This should fix your current situation. The "sharedrepository = 1"
> will tell git to maintain a proper shared state in the future
> on objects it creates (i.e. mirror "user" permission to "group" ones).

This worked beautifully. Thanks Sam, thanks Marc!

-- Ed