Re: Error: unable to unlink ... when using "git gc"

> [re-adding git@vger; please keep discussion on-list so everyone can
> benefit from the result]
>
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:52:12PM +0800, Johnny Lee wrote:
>
>> Thanks Peff, I've checked the permission of .git/objects/16, it's
>> created by another user and thus I have no permission to remove it.
>>
>> In fact, this is coming from a previous bad practice on setting up a
>> collaboration repository on a SSH server, here is what I've done so
>> far:
>> [...]
>> 7. Then the user "git" has changed mode for all the files under .git
>> to writable.
>>
>> 8. This time, user "johnny" can push successfully.
>
> If you are going to have multiple users sharing a repository, generally
> they should be in the same group and the core.sharedrepository config
> option should be set (see "git help config", or the "shared" option to
> git-init).
>
> I've never used that personally, though. I have always just used POSIX
> ACLs, with a default ACL on each directory giving access to everyone.
> E.g. (off the top of my head):
>
>  for user in user1 user2 user3; do
>    setfacl -R -m u:$user:rwX -m d:u:$user:rwX /path/to/repo
>  done
>
> -Peff
>