Re: Shared repositories and umask

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Feb 15, 2006, 13:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20060215130538.GO31278@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <mj+md-20060215.120104.14337.atrey@ucw.cz>

Hi,

Dear diary, on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:19:07PM CET, I got a letter where Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> said that...

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> I'm playing with a shared repository and I am still unable to get the
> file and directory permissions kept correctly, that is writeable to
> a group.
> 
> Setting the `core.sharedrepository' flag helps a bit, but not completely:
> the object files and directories are group-writeable, but for example new
> head refs aren't.

  actually, this is not necessary, since when pushing to shared
repositories, the new ref is created in the directory as a lockfile and
then moved over the original ref - this makes the ref updating safe and
raceless, while also making it enough to have the refs directory
group-writable.

  Therefore, it shouldn't be actually necessary to meddle with umask
anymore. The documentation is obsolete; I'll remove the relevant bits
from Cogito docs.

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