Re: Shared repositories and umask

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Feb 15, 2006, 13:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20060215135958.GK9573@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602151448590.10593@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Hi,

Dear diary, on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:51:50PM CET, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...

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> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:
> >   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 The documentation is obsolete; I'll remove the relevant bits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.
> 
> Basically, if you just want a shared repository, you don't need to set the 
> umask. However, if you want to work in the working directory (multiple 
> users), you have to set the umask (it is not enough that the git tools do 
> that, because you are likely to work with other programs as well).

  yes, but that's kind of rare workflow - I guess mostly when you have
your website in GIT and update the working copy in the post-update hook
- but then you can easily setup umask in the hook as well.

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