Re: get git not to care about permissions

From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2009, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <76c5b8580911120728j2f9995basb554b0a493a364bf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580911111334p76232995qbd6bf6b06d250854@mail.gmail.com>

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>> On Nov 9, 2009 11:06 AM, "sconeman" <schoen@bu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up git on a NetApp drive at my school, BU.  The NetApp
>> shares are configured with Windows permissions, and I forget the specifics
>> (which I can figure out if needed) about why this is the case, but basically
>> the deal is that if true UNIX permissions were to be used, Windows wouldn't
>> be able to read the drive.  As such, and because we use the Kerberos
>> ticketing system, the permissions for the drive are set up such that the
>> owners (myself and my team members) have full permissions, but nobody else
>> does.  Git doesn't like this and won't even create a bare repository.  Is
>> there any way I can get git to ignore permissions and just do what it needs
>> to do?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for the help!
>>
>> -Matt
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I had almost similar issue - bare repos in my case should be set up under
> user which only few guys are having password from. So what I did is just a
> small program which creates the bare repo locally and makes secure copy to
> this user home. All authentication is hidden from the end user. Then users
> can access their repos via git protocol. Ialso fillthe repo with some
> additional info for cgit.
>
> Eugene

BTW I'm using "git clone --bare" in this process, so if you have a repo with working copy you can create a bare one separately, put it on the server and then connect to it via "git remote add"

Eugene