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

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Johnny Lee <johnnylee194@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 6, 2009, 15:05 UTC
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<slrngm6hoj.n4a.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
Copy that.
Thanks Sitaram.

We also plan to do it in this way, just a small wondering that it looks a kind of workaround instead of a more graceful solution.

Regards, Johnny

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2009-01-06, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> 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
>
> If you're not worried about the finer-grained access control
> that acl(5) gives you, just do what "git init
> --shared=group" does:
>
>    git config core.sharedrepository 1 # as mentioned above
>    chmod g+ws .git
>
> Now set the group to something (I use "gitpushers" ;-)
>
>    chgrp -R gitpushers .git
>
> amd make sure all your users are part of that group.
>
> Works fine for small teams...
>
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