Re: Git newbie question: permissions

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).

  Sam