From: Martin Langhoff Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:52:49 GMT Subject: Re: 'error: unable to set permission to './objects/...' Message-ID: <46a038f90911230152j34f42e85ibf4ed57660bd2cf2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vd43acf7y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > And the chmod() fails > in this codepath.  Then what?  Wouldn't it make the resulting repository > unusable? Slightly off-topic: I keep encountering hosts where core.sharedrepository doesn't always work with git+ssh. It may be related to old git versions (I see 1.5.8 in a host where I've seen it happen recently), but I never fails to baffle me. Been sysadmin'ing and developing on linux since '98 and there is nothing to prevent git from chmod'ing things right. And I know a few things about git's plumbing :-) -- don't think it should be mysteriously failing. (And in several git repo servers I've spotted a cronjob doing chmod -R g+rwx, applied by sysadmins to make the devs STFU about it ;-) ). Is there a shortlist somewhere of reasons for it to be ignored? Perhaps it is a known bug in old versions? -- the repo servers are often behind... Puzzled minds want to know. m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff