Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 06:27 UTC
Message-ID: <200901070027.21721.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <slrngm6hoj.n4a.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote about 'Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"':

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>On 2009-01-06, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> If you are going to have multiple users sharing a repository, generally
>> they should be in the same group and the core.sharedrepository config
>> option should be set (see "git help config", or the "shared" option to
>> git-init).
>If you're not worried about the finer-grained access control
>that acl(5) gives you, just do what "git init
>--shared=group" does:
>
>    git config core.sharedrepository 1 # as mentioned above
>    chmod g+ws .git
>
>Now set the group to something (I use "gitpushers" ;-)
>
>    chgrp -R gitpushers .git
>
>amd make sure all your users are part of that group.
>
>Works fine for small teams...

ISTR this breaking here when someone on the team had a umask like 077 and was using file:// or ssh:// to push. I tended up "fixing" things with a cronjob, (which is a bit of a hack) IIRC.

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