Re: git init permissions?

From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Apr 14, 2009, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID: <200904142047.21810.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <49E4D16E.9050500@pelagic.nl>

On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote:

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> I'm looking at the git init --shared=group result and see:
>
> drwxrwsr-x 7 ferry ferry  111 2009-04-14 19:51 .
> drwxrwxr-x 3 ferry ferry   17 2009-04-14 19:51 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 2 ferry ferry    6 2009-04-14 19:51 branches
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ferry ferry  127 2009-04-14 19:51 config
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ferry ferry   58 2009-04-14 19:51 description
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ferry ferry   23 2009-04-14 19:51 HEAD
> drwxrwxr-x 2 ferry ferry 4.0K 2009-04-14 19:51 hooks
> drwxrwxr-x 2 ferry ferry   20 2009-04-14 19:51 info
> drwxrwsr-x 4 ferry ferry   28 2009-04-14 19:51 objects
> drwxrwsr-x 4 ferry ferry   29 2009-04-14 19:51 refs
>
> Is there some kind of reason that the branches directory is
> not created with +s permissions?
>
> I can understand it for the hooks and info directories since
> you can not push into those. You _can_ however push into
> branches and I would expect it to have +s too, like objects
> and refs.
>
> Bug or my misunderstanding?
>
> git version 1.6.0.6

This was caused by the template files not getting adjusted permissions set correctly when copied into a new repository (by git init).

This has been fixed (along with other --shared issues) in v1.6.2.3. Please upgrade, if possible.

Have fun! :)

...Johan

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