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

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <200901070948.34117.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <slrngm92hr.72d.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

On Wednesday 2009 January 07 04:55:56 you wrote:

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> On 2009-01-07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
> > wrote=20
> >
> >>    chmod g+ws .git
> >>
> >>Now set the group to something (I use "gitpushers" ;-)
> >>
> >>    chgrp -R gitpushers .git
> >
> > ISTR this breaking here when someone on the team had a umask like 077
> > and=20 was using file:// or ssh:// to push.  I tended up "fixing" things
> > with a=20 cronjob, (which is a bit of a hack) IIRC.
>
> That doesn't sound right.  "git help init" says:
>  - 0xxx: 0xxx is an octal number and each file will have mode 0xxx
>  - 0xxx will override users umask(2) value, and thus, users
>    with a safe umask (0077) can use this option
>  - 0660 is equivalent to group.
>
> So when you say "group", you're saying "0660", and when you
> say "0660", you're overriding users umask value.

Very good then. It is from when I was significantly less experienced in using git and managing repos, so I may have forgotten to use the correct options OR it could just have been the version of git I was using (1.4.4.4, IIRC) -- still using that in at least one place, as it is the current version in Debian Etch.

It's good to know it works properly now, if all the right switches are set.

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