From: Gonzalo Garramuño Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:08:56 GMT Subject: Re: Git and securing a repository Message-ID: <477C7BF8.2090406@advancedsl.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <20080103044552.GB24004@spearce.org> Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > Its a distributed version control system. All peers are equal. > Most security in Git is handled by only pulling from sources you > trust, and never allowing someone to push stuff into a repository > you own. > Regarding that... is there a way to control the umask of a git clone independent of the actual umask of the user or directories inside the repository? Ideally, on the server side? That is, for sensitive repositories, I would like "git clone" to always clone that repository with 0700 permissions, so that the silly mistake of cloning a sensitive repository into a public directory and forgetting to restrict its permissions can be avoided completely. -- Gonzalo Garramuño ggarra@advancedsl.com.ar AMD4400 - ASUS48N-E GeForce7300GT Xubuntu Gutsy