Re: git shared repository & permission problems

From: Kārlis Repsons <karlis.repsons@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 12, 2009, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID: <200906121424.28577.Karlis.Repsons@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A325E00.6050504@dirk.my1.cc>

On Friday 12 June 2009 13:54:08 you wrote:

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> Am 12.06.2009 14:13 schrieb Ka-rlis Repsons:
> > Things would be fine, but I am having really bad ssh permission problems
> > in here: for example, if there is an empty, initialised git archive and
> > it is pulled to over ssh, the created files have permissions only u=rwX,
> > no more. Then subsequently git pulling doesn't work. Maybe you know how
> > to solve it?
>
> Probably your umask is doing this? When you locally create a file (e.g.
> "touch foo"), does it then only have "-rwx------" as well?

No, at client its allright with umask (well, in bash, not konqueror). Where from is sftp-server receiving its file permission bits for the new files? Maybe some way to change it?

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> > Also, in general, how can it be set up, that >1 people have a write
> > access to the same repository? Only by using the same login?
>
> Have a look at the "--shared" option of "git init". That's supposed to
> create shared repositories, i.e. all users of the same group have write
> access.

> I'm not exactly sure how to make an existing repo "shared" after 
> it's been created,

Someone else knows? That would be useful...

> Hope this helps,
>      Dirk

Thanks!

k.