From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:51:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: ensure correct permissions of the commit message
Message-ID: <20160115115100.Horde.QlNwKM_-9TZQXszPUgP2qz3@webmail.informatik.kit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqegdjk4ud.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>


Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:

> SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:
>
>> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>>
>>> Actually, we do not even _need_ a sharedness for this ephemeral
>>> file.  The additional "adjust-shared-perm" is merely a workaround
>>> for the fact the next person cannot write into it when it is left
>>> behind, and because we do not want to remove it when we are done.
>>
>> Do we really want to keep such a file after we are done?
>
> There is no strong reason we should want to remove them, either.
>
> As long as the lazy garbage collection works, there is no incentive
> to change things.

I'm not sure what you mean by "lazy garbage collection"; I suppose not  
that I sometimes delete a stale COMMIT_EDITMSG or two by hand...