Re: undocumented core.sharedRepository=2 set by git init --shared=world

From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Jul 7, 2015, 06:44 UTC
Message-ID: <559B756A.2040202@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20150706192547.GA15396@kitenet.net>

On 2015-07-06 21.25, Joey Hess wrote:

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> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>git init --shared=world testrepo
> Initialized empty shared Git repository in /home/joey/tmp/testrepo/.git/
> joey@darkstar:~/tmp>grep shared testrepo/.git/config 
> 	sharedrepository = 2
> 
> This magic value of 2 seems to be undocumented, as is the magic value of 1
> that's equvilant to "group".
> 
> I think it would be better to have git init put in "world" or "group" and not
> these magic values.

Thanks for the report.
Changing the behavior of Git may cause problems with
- older versions of Git
- Other implementations of Git, like JGit, libgit2, ...

Did you check what these implementations do ?

Anyway, I suppose they ought to be documented too.

Yes. Do you want to send a patch ?